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The DB2Night Show™
2016 DB2's GOT TALENT Contest
-- Covering both DB2 LUW and z/OS
SIMPLER. LESS TIME. MORE FUN.
YOU ONLY GET ONE CHANCE -
ONE PRESENTATION! 7 Minutes Max!
Suggested Topics
- dashDB
- IBM in the Cloud experiences
- BIGDATA, Analytics, involving IBM technology
- IBM Watson
- BLU experiences
- Using new V10.5 Features
- Indexes on Expressions and Index Techniques
- Using new V10.1 Features
- Tell us about your query from hell and how you fixed it
- Tell us about a significant tuning achievement
- How do you back up your databases?
- How do you know your database backups are successful?
- How do you restore databases or tablespaces?
- What High Availability solutions or techniques do you use?
- How do you monitor your databases? What do you look for?
- Without revealing sensitive information, how have you implemented DB2
Security? Roles? RACF? Groups?
- How have you set up database auditing?
- Tell us about your experiences with Compression
- Tell us about using Solid State Disk (SSD)
- How are you using new features of the latest DB2 versions?
- How do you work with application development to ensure performance?
- How do you investigate locking symptoms? Solve?
- What special configuration settings do you use? Why?
- How did your last implementation of DB2 maintenance go? Gotchas?
- How do you measure performance improvements or degradations after applying a new application release?
- What happened when you tested database recovery?
- How do you configure and tune your bufferpools?
- How do you monitor and manage table spaces?
- Any experience with Oracle Enablement or Sybase skins?
- Have you used Currently Committed lock isolation? Results?
- How do you determine which indexes can be dropped?
- Any experience with automatic tuning?
- Have you used Multi-Dimensional Clustering Tables? Results?
- How do you partition your data? Why?
- Have you used Materialized Query Tables? Results?
- How do you interpret Explains?
- How do you manage query access plans?
- When do you REORG? Why?
- How do you monitor utilities?
- How and when do you RUNSTATS? Why? Results?
- ...What did you do yesterday?!?!?!?
WHAT NEXT?
- Want to be a contestant? Download the Application (Application2016.doc), complete it, then return it to
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- Return to: DB2's GOT TALENT Introduction
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