Category Archives: DB2 LUW

What to do when you’re forced to stay on out of date software

Posted on January 19, 2012 by laura

In an ideal world all organisations would be running the latest software versions and upgrading when new versions came out, in order to benefit from the latest innovations and also to ensure that software was officially supported by the vendor. … Continue reading →

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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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Enhancements to DB2 pureScale

Posted on December 13, 2011 by laura

Over the last year there have been some exciting enhancements to DB2 pureScale.  At IDUG EMEA Matt Huras, Distinguished Engineer, IBM Toronto Laboratory, gave an excellent presentation which ran through some of the key enhancements including: More platform choices – … Continue reading →

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Looking forward to IDUG EMEA

Posted on November 11, 2011 by laura

It’s the final countdown to IDUG EMEA!  We’re really looking forward to the event this year, there’s so much going on.  We’re sending three of our top DB2 Geeks.  Julian Stuhler will be heading out to Prague early as he … Continue reading →

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Are you a DB2 Geek?

Posted on October 28, 2011 by laura

If you’re attending IDUG EMEA in Prague next month then we invite you to seek the geek and find out! As you walk around the conference centre and attend the sessions you’ll see some of our Geeks. They will be … Continue reading →

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DB2DART – Hints & Tips for the DBA

Posted on October 17, 2011 by laura

In his recent presentation on the DB2Night Show, Iqbal Goralwalla shared with attendees hints and tips on using DB2DART to achieve storage reclamation, address index corruption, extract data and remove backup pending status.  100% of attendees at the live show said … Continue reading →

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DB2 Support Video – Monitoring transaction times

Posted on October 10, 2011 by laura

In our latest video demo our Remote DBA team show how they use Brother-Thoroughbred® from DBI Software to measure customer’s transaction times, time distributions and service level attainments.   Tweet// < ![CDATA[ // < ![CDATA[ // < ![CDATA[

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Triton Expert Headlining the DB2Night Show™ – All About DB2DART

Posted on October 7, 2011 by laura

We’re excited that one of our top DB2 Geeks, Iqbal Goralwalla will be presenting on next weeks’ DB2Night Show.  His specialist subject will be DB2DART. There are several powerful and important commands in DB2 LUW and “db2dart” is among the … Continue reading →

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DB2 Performance Tuning in Action

Posted on September 27, 2011 by laura

Triton have released a series of product demos showing the industry leading database performance monitoring and tuning software from DBI Software. Our Remote DBA team use these tools to proactively monitor customer databases.  Triton Consulting are partners with Texas based … Continue reading →

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IDUG EMEA Highlights – DB2 pureScale

Posted on August 18, 2011 by laura

We’ve been huge fans of DB2 pureScale ever since it was first announced back in October 2009 and we’ve done a lot of reasearch and work on our own DB2 pureScale installation.  So, we’re delighted to see that there are some interesting … Continue reading →

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