Host Commentary
This was Kate Kurtz's third appearance as a guest on The DB2Night Show and it was great to have her back. She has a knack for cherry picking the best talent inside IBM to share valuable information with our audiences. Did you miss her first appearance in Episode #29 on DB2 LUW High Availability and Recovery Planning? Watch it!. In Episode #55, Kate and her team talked about best practices for multi-temperature data management. Watch it!
Today's show, #56 in the DB2 for LUW series, marks the end of our Season #2. Since our show's inception, there have been over 86,000 downloads of replays to date. Sure hope you will watch a lot of REPLAYS during July and August while we prepare an exciting and educational Season #3! If we reach 100,000 replay downloads by 1 September 2011, make sure you attend our live shows in September because we'll be celebrating! And, YOU KNOW how we like to celebrate! 
Episode #56 Drawing Winner
We would like to congratulate Minzi Xiao with JP Morgan Chase in Bear, Delaware! Minzi was in our studio audience and completed the pop-up survey afterwards. Congratulations Minzi! You won our $25.00 Amazon.com gift certificate prize.
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Episode 56, 24 June 2011, DB2 LUW Data Warehouse Performance Tuning Best Practices.
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Our Season #3 show schedule should be published by mid-August!