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Recently, on November 14th, IBM released the new version 12 of Db2 LUW and with that, as for every LUW version, a new version of Db2 Connect and the...

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A tablespace Scan is chosen by the optimizer for the retrieval of data from a query for many different reasons, often times when no other access...

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The IDUG AU 2025 Call For Presentations Is Open!

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For the past 30 years, Transport Layer Security (TLS) has been the cornerstone of securing data in transit on the web. Billions of messages are sent...

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Make plans to join IDUG in Germany for EMEA25

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We look forward to meeting our Db2 customers at IDUG EMEA 2024. IDUG has a great week planned for you. Here are some session highlights and...

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Some say the query optimizer can be thought of as the brain of your database management system. How is it possible to integrate neural networks into...

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Are column masks really secure as they seem to be? A few years ago, I published a blog on how to unmask the masked data. I believe this is the right...

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The IDUG NA 2025 Call for Presentions is OPEN!

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A recent post in this blog by Emil Kotrc, “Unmasking the masked data,” brought awareness to a potential risk with using column masks. In this...

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Storage systems play an important role in database recovery. Since storage capabilities are one of the central characteristics of cloud...

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Db2 Warehouse is a transactional database that has been used for decades to implement data analytics solutions, covering the full spectrum from deep...

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