IBM itself is using the BLU components of DB2 10.5 as a cornerstone for its DB2 SmartCloud infrastructure as a service (IaaS), to add computational heft for data reporting and analysis jobs.

Because the wrappers also know how each database processes queries, such as the number of tables that can be accessed per query, DB2’s query-processing engine “can decide the best way to ...

IBM’s newly released DB2 9.1 (previously code-named “Viper”) sheds many of the limitations of DB2 8, boosting performance, scalability, and security. But one feature in particular, the ...

The queries are written to the SAS log. For example, if you submit a PROC PRINT statement that references a DB2 table, the DB2 SQL query is displayed in the SAS log. The SAS/ACCESS engine for DB2 ...

Caching Query Results with QuickSelect Improves Db2 z/OS Workload Performance By Craig Mullins In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, the ability to access and process data as quickly as possible is ...

And Db2 is well-equipped to handle, manage, and optimize many disparate types of data, including unstructured and multimedia data, JSON, XML, and even temporal data. Db2 has also been optimized to ...

In IBM’s “federated database” approach to data integration, a single DB2 query can go against heterogeneous remote relational databases, Web sites, unstructured documents and flat files.

Deploying an update of its DB2 database, IBM is pitching its SmartCloud infrastructure as a service (IaaS) for use in data reporting and analysis.

In DB2, the execution time is shown in a separate pop-up window and it goes away as soon as the query is finished, so if you’re not watching it, you have no idea how long it took.