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The DB2Night Show #149: DB2's GOT TALENT - z/OS Auditions

Posted on 2/21/2015
DB2's GOT TALENT 2015

It's the International DB2 Olympics!

Today's Finalist Winners: Cristian, Leila, Akshat, & Rajesh

100% of our studio audience learned something! Today's presentations were again very good considering that we had contestants from Austria, Iran, and India! It fascinates me that we can gather around our computers and learn from industry peers all over the world. You will learn about inline UDFs in DB2 V10/V11, Performance Optimization on SAP/DB2, Solving DBM1 high CPU usage, and lessons learned while upgrading DB2 LUW with avoiding pitfalls. This show contains another buffet of useful tips and advice! Enjoy!


Show Host Scott Hayes Commentary

We had one contestant no-show, but everyone else remarkably showed up and gave good presentations! However, going into the March Finals we will only have 9 Finalists, not 10. Our esteemed, kind, loving, helpful judges, in their infinite collective wisdoms, selected Christian, Leila, and Akshat from today's auditions, plus the selected Rajesh as an alternate from our 6 February auditions. It's in the rules that we can change the rules. As such, our Top 9 Finalists will be...

DB2's GOT TALENT Top 9 Finalists

  • Brandon, New Zealand
  • Roberto, Mexico
  • Pratik, India
  • Sreeharsha, India
  • Rohit, India
  • Christian, Austria
  • Leila, Iran
  • Akshat, India
  • Rajesh, India

A gift from Judge Susan Visser, @susvis

Susan prepared a presentation on social enablement and has shared it on SlideShare. CLICK HERE to learn how to Tweet and use LinkedIn!

NEWS FLASH!
New DB2 10.1/10.5 Certification Book!

On 27 February, Mohan Saraswatipura and Kent Collins, authors of the forthcoming new DB2 certification book, will be our guests. They will teach various certification topics from the book, plus offer tips and advice. Mohan, you might recall, won DB2's GOT TALENT 1st place in 2013. Kent was our guest on Episode #115 talking about his BLU and pureScale experiences. Make sure you join us on these dates - just register for DB2's GOT TALENT if you haven't already!

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