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The DB2Night Show #15: DB2 9.7 Online Table Moves with Ergin Babani, IBM

Posted on 4/2/2010
In our 15th show, we talked about the new Online Table Move capability in DB2 9.7. Our special guest was Ergin Babani, DB2 LUW Continuing Engineering, from the IBM Toronto Lab. Despite recovering from a cold and having a sore throat, Ergin did a fantastic job for us on covering the options and features of this new capability, along with some insights, tips, and best practices. Of particular note, we hit a new record for studio audience questions - there were a lot of really good questions that you'll want to hear the answers to...
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Episode 15, 2010 Apr 2, DB2 9.7 Online Table Moves with guest Ergin Babani, IBM Toronto

We don't usually do this, but Ergin's slide deck contains some very good examples of how to use ADMIN_MOVE_TABLE. In fact, after the show, he sent us an updated slide deck that includes an example of how to change column data types with ADMIN_MOVE_TABLE. We invite you to access a PDF copy of the slide deck: RIGHT CLICK HERE

At a future time, we will attempt to update information about this show with more answers to questions that we didn't have time to get to. Please check back.

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