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IBM Db2 has introduced a native vector data type and vector similarity search capabilities in its latest Early Access Program (EAP) release. These...

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Db2 pureScale is the shared-disk cluster solution that aims to achieve zero-downtime while running your mission-critical, high-performance OLTP...

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Db2 is well known, especially in the mainframe world. IBM Db2 for z/OS is a relational database management system (RDBMS) built for IBM mainframes,...

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Introduction Database encryption to ensure your data is protected at rest is nowadays considered mandatory for all enterprises. One of the...

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Welcome back to the pureScale with Pacemaker blog series! If you have not already, I recommend visiting the first blog post in this series,...

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Db2 as engine and data source for the data lakehouse A while ago, I was working with IBM watsonx.data to prepare a presentation on...

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Partitioned table spaces have been with us in the world of Db2 forever, but even as sites work to move all of their table spaces to Universal table...

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Updated March 2025.This original version of this article previously appeared in the IDUG Blog. The need for db2mon When monitoring table functions...

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IBM’s Power10 Private Cloud Rack for Db2 Warehouse (P10 PCR) Solution represents the next generation of the IBM Integrated Analytics System (IIAS),...

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Today, I am going to take a look at another variation of external tables. They can be used to load data from a remote Db2 client or unload data to...

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Data Lake tables provide an easy way to exchange data within your business - they are typically stored in an Open Data Format (ODF) on Object...

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A null represents missing or unknown information at the column level. A null is not the same as 0 (zero) or blank. Null means no entry has been made...

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