The DB2Night Show #53: Achieving DB2 LUW Access Plan Stability

96% of our studio audience indicated they learned something! How awesome is that?!!? Our special guest was John Hornibrook, STSM, Manager, Query Optimization Development, from the IBM Canada Lab. John shared with us more advice on how to optimize SQL queries, important ways to collect statistics, and how to "use a bigger hammer" to influence the DB2 optimizer. Learn about DB2 Optimization Profiles (DB2 "hints") and much more. Watch the replay and take advantage of all John's wisdom!!!

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Host Commentary

I predict Episode #53 will be amongst the Top 10 most highly downloaded shows for 2011! If you only have time to watch a few episodes, make sure this one is on your short list! Yes, I know, I said the same thing about show #52. John Hornibrook is just simply that awesome!

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Episode 53, 20 May 2011, Writing and Tuning Queries for Optimal Performance with John Hornibrook, IBM.

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References and Links

Just to give you a sample of some of the incredible content in this presentation (we don't usually do this), we are sharing 20 of 57 slides from John's slide deck via PDF: Download Sample Slides

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