Next Tuesday, September 14th, The Fillmore Group is hosting Carlton Doe, Charles Gonsalves and Warren Heising for an Informix celebration day.  The day’s agenda includes sessions on the new pricing options, reasons to upgrade to v11, and how to make Informix service options work for your organization.  Carlton Doe will be on hand to provide a peek into the future with the release of “Panther”.  This is a *free* event with lunch on TFG, so please join us.  Registration is HERE.  Jump for the full agenda.    Read More…

I am ready to leave for IOD and had some thoughts on this year’s conference based on what I’ve heard (unconfirmed, ok?)  It’s sad to hear from so many customers that they cannot attend.  IOD and IDUG offer DB2 users the broadest perspective on what’s happening in the world of OUR technology, and it seems the many incentives of attending - great training and lots of discussion about what new features and functionality are being planned, or have already been added (but no one knows about).  One vendor I spoke to estimated IOD attendance will be 80% vendors and IBM’ers, and 20% customers.  Bummer!

I think it’s important that every DB2 user get a sense of the strategy to merge all the acquired products into a comprehensive toolkit.  For those of you who won’t be at the conference, here are some suggestions: Read More…

Hot off the press from Kathy Zeidenstein and the Data Studio team!  Improve the performance and security for your existing .NET applications that access DB2 with pureQuery. 

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/data/tutorials/dm-0903optimizenet/

IBM® Data Studio pureQuery Runtime 2.1 includes a new feature, called client optimization, that enables database administrators and developers to take advantage of the performance and security benefits of static SQL execution against IBM DB2® databases without having to modify their existing custom-developed or packaged .NET applications. In this tutorial, learn how to enable this capability for an existing .NET application.

I scheduled two classes between now and year end in hopes of alerting customers that 1) there IS still time to get training completed by year end, and 2) if you can’t spare the time away from the office NOW, you can still sock some training budget funds away for next year.  Don’t forget - training is always one of the first budget items that gets cut when the economy slows down.  And it’s definitely sllllooowwwwiiinnnggg down.

Here’s what I’ve sent:

If you have 2008 training budget left to spend please consider joining The Fillmore Group for these two upcoming classes – or contact me about setting up a retainer account to conserve your training budget for use in 2009.  I can be reached at 410-465-6335 or kim.may@thefillmoregroup.com

Accelerated DB2 Database Administration for LINUX/UNIX/Windows

Dates:  November 24, 25, 26

Location:  The Fillmore Group, Towson, Maryland

Cost:  $1600

Summary:  This expert seminar course is intended for experienced DBAs or individuals familiar with relational database concepts.  Students will learn the basics of DB2 database administration including design considerations and performance tuning.  Hands-on, instructor-led.

DB2 for z/OS SQL Optimization and Tuning

Dates:  December 1, 2, 3

Location:  ATPCO, Dulles, Virginia

Cost:  $1600

Summary:  In this class students break down SQL statements to gain an understanding of how the DB2 Optimizer fulfills a request.  Students learn how database design, indexing, and the use of efficient and effective SQL queries impact performance and how to gather accurate statistical information for optimization.  Hands-on, instructor-led.