Category Archives: DB2 Administration

Customer says best feature in DB2 9.7 is Storage Optimization…

Posted on January 18, 2012 by laura

…it gave compression of up to 5 times resulting in more space savings and enhanced performance. In 2011 we worked with one of our longest standing customers, Holiday Extras, on a migration project and helped them migrate from their DB2 … Continue reading →

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A “normal” day for the DB2 Support team

Posted on July 27, 2011 by Raj

As part of the DB2 Support team at Triton I’ve been working with DBI tools for the last 6 months when we began using them to help manage and support our DB2 Remote DBA clients.  Things have been going well. … Continue reading →

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Fearless Database and Application Performance Management from Cradle to Grave

Posted on May 31, 2011 by laura

Date: Thursday, June 16, 2011 Time: 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM CDT This Webinar is based on DBI’s IDUG DB2 Tech Conference presentation in Anaheim California. Scott Hayes, IBM DB2 GOLD Consultant and Information Management Champion, will be the presenter. … Continue reading →

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Don’t expect to get by without any DB2 skills

Posted on February 1, 2011 by laura

This is quite a common issue in many organisations where development is carried out offshore and there is a local admin/support function but no local DBA resource. In this story Triton were initially brought in as a “one off” exercise … Continue reading →

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The DB2Night Show sets new records with TOP DB2 LUW Support Issues

Posted on January 31, 2011 by laura

Last week Triton’s Julian Stuhler appeared on the ever popular DB2Night Show run by DBI software.  We’re delighted to report that this issue on “Top DB2 LUW Support Issues” set a new record for audience registrations.  Julian shared an assortment … Continue reading →

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DBAs – who needs ‘em?!

Posted on January 25, 2011 by Iqbal

A cautionary tale of why not investing in skilled DBAs can have terrible consequences for the business. We received a frantic call one evening from a customer asking for immediate help. DB2 had “hung” and no activity could be performed … Continue reading →

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Beware of “over-federating”

Posted on January 12, 2011 by Iqbal

During a recent DB2-LDAP configuration at a client site, I stumbled upon a bizarre security exposure. Using any DB2 client tool, it was possible to connect to the database as any user without having to get the password right! Once … Continue reading →

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What are Managed Services, and Why Should You Care?

Posted on October 2, 2009 by Administrator

Take a look at Laurie McCabe‘s recent article on IT-Director.com to get the lowdown on why IT Managed Services are so important to the small to medium business.

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Simplifying DB2 Adiministration & Development with IBM Data Studio

Posted on September 10, 2009 by Administrator

In this DB2 Chat with the Lab webinar, find out how database developers and DBAs can get their jobs done more efficiently and with less risk using the no-charge capabilities in Data Studio 2.2, and the value-added capabilities in Optim … Continue reading →

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Did your DBA team get burnt this summer?

Posted on September 9, 2009 by Administrator

As the bbq summer progressed, temperatures rose (well, there was that one week in May) and we all disappeared off on our Staycations, were the frazzled DBA team the only ones who got burnt? Burnt-out that is.  There are certain … Continue reading →

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