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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...

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

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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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My recent post about Db2 backup to S3 or Object Storage triggered a question. And the answer to it is that I wrote about external tables first in...

IBM Db2 12.1 — Now that the long-awaited release is out, let’s dive in to a quick overview of just some of what’s new in the areas of backup,...