Making Plans for IBM Think 2019

I'm looking forward to once again attend IBM Think, IBM's flagship technology conference. I attended the inaugural Think conference and it was one of the highlights of the year (2017). This year IBM Think is being held in San Francisco February 12 thru 15 at the Moscone Center and surrounding hotels. San Francisco is a wonderful location because it will give the conference more room to...

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DB2 TSAMP Clustering - Resource marked as OFFLINE

Question: I've installed the latest security vulnerability patching for jdk on DB2 TASMP clustering - and while running some tests i.e fail over and fail back , I'm getting a Resource Marked as offline. I've investigated the root cause - and fixed , and now I'm trying to reset the resource back as ONLINE. How can reset the resource? Answer: Without knowing anything about how the root cause and what steps you took to fix the underlying cause, the typical steps to take is to use the resetrsrc command. This is an example of how you might reset the value...

Why every Data Scientist should know SQL

Still waiting…it’s been over an hour and still nothing. I watch the clock, get some tea, ruminate on the structure of dark matter…. I’m trying to work with course enrollment data in a relatively large database and format it in a nice splashboard, but processing this data takes far too long. Perhaps dark matter is […]

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Db2’s Alternate Page Cleaning

The first professional technical presentation I ever gave was on March 31, 2003. I had been a DBA for just less than 2 years. It was at an event called “SDC West Geek Fest”. It was an internal IBM event within Global Services where the technical folks delivering services got

Common Database Design Errors

Before we begin today’s blog post, wherein I explain some of the more common mistakes that rookies and non-database folks make (heck, even some database folks make mistakes), I first want to...

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