The DB2Night Show #12: DB2 Information Resources

In our 12th show, special guest Susan Visser, Publishing Program Manager, IBM, introduced us to "The Wild Wonderful World of DB2 Information Resources". I had no idea that there were so many free and inexpensive resources available for quality DB2 information. Watch the replay of this episode to learn about the best blogs, best selling DB2 books, and the best websites for DB2 Information...

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Episode 12, 2010 Feb 12, The Wild Wonderful World of DB2 Information Resources with Susan Visser (58MB)

During this episode, Susan referred to her blog and hyperlinks therein on a number of occasions. You can find Susan's blog here: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/blogs/SusanVisser/?lang=en_us

Also during this episode, we announced a new LinkedIn Group for The DB2Night Show™. The group is an open group. Join to received LinkedIn group updates including future shows and replay information, and, if you like, start some discussions about the show! Join The DB2Night Show LinkedIn Group!

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A Shameless Marketing Moment

During this episode, DBI's short two minute sponsorship commercial included a brief live demonstration of DBI's performance analysis, tuning, and trending tools for DB2 LUW. Here's what we did:

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• Click 2: Statement Analysis showed one SQL statement using over 80% of all database CPU time
• Click 3: We Explained the SQL statement and determined than an index was needed
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Cheers,
Your host,
Scott Hayes