The following sequence of statements would be used in an OS/390 SAS session to establish a connection to DB2 and query the table SYSIBM.SYSTABLES: connect to db2 (ssid=db2p); select * from connection ...

is used to debug SAS code. When you submit a SAS statement that accesses DB2 data, DB2DBUG displays any DB2 SQL queries (generated by SAS) that are processed by DB2. The queries are written to the SAS ...

IBM’s BLU acceleration technology speeds DB2 queries against large data sets. Also, using DB2 could cut the labor costs of running a separate data warehouse, given that the pool of available database ...

Jim Shelton looked the data-warehouse monster in the eye and blinked. And he says he’s glad he did. In late 1998, Shelton, the director of information systems at Global Companies LLC in Waltham, Mass.

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 hybrid ...

In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, the ability to access and process data as quickly as possible is of utmost importance for businesses striving to gain a competitive edge. As such, a ...

DC_DB de INNER JOIN SH1_DC_DB sde ON de.DC_0 = sde.DC_0 AND de.DC_1 = sde.DC_1 ...

Deploying an update of its DB2 database, IBM is pitching its SmartCloud infrastructure as a service (IaaS) for use in data reporting and analysis. “We’re the only player in the marketplace that has [a ...

I often wonder who will ultimatly take the lion’s share of the database market. Oracle and Microsoft seem to have a strong lead while IBM and Sybase seem to be lagging behind. And for some reason ...

IBM is positive about the possibility of bringing out its DB2 database management software under an open-source license. While the computing giant has no immediate plans to open-source DB2, market ...