Category: Podcasts

Recorded February 6, 2015 • 48 minutes

Fred and Ian discuss the lack of DB2 ads in Superbowl XLIX, the new features in DB2 10.5 Fixpack 5 and the latest DB2 News.

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Show Notes & Links

• Strangers with Candy

• Superbowl XLIX

• Phoenix Open

• fivethirtyeight.com on record ticket prices for Super Bowl XLIX

• Nationwide’s Super Bummer Super Bowl Ad

• Fred’s Reducing Round Trips article for IDUG

• db2unit Testing Framework dW article from @angoca

• DB2 v11.1 is on the horizon

• Native Encryption, pureScale, BLU features

  • DB2 10.5 Fixpack 5 Announcement Letter

  • Kelly Schlamb’s post on the Business Application Continuity Offering

  • Walid Rjaibi’s post on Native Encryption

  • The New Feature Availability matrix

• WLM can be used as a tool for pranking

• Ugly TechNote about db2bp on Red Hat 6.6

• DB2 TechNote describes a method to estimate transaction size

Recorded January 4, 2015 • 47 minutes

Fred and Ian ring in the new year, review the fall conference season and discuss the latest DB2 News.

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• DB2 10.5 Fixpack 5 has been released, and introduces BLU support for Windows

• The first IBM/Apple Enterprise Apps have been announced, and look pretty

• IBM announced dashDB at IBM Insight

• Cloud Foundry

• IBM and Twitter got hitched in Vegas

• Matt Huras’ DB2 Internals Presentation from IDUG EMEA

• IDUG EMEA will be in Dublin in November, 2015

Recorded October 1, 2014 • 46 minutes

Fred and Ian talk about what’s new in the DB2 “Cancun” release (10.5 Fixpack 4) and the latest DB2 News.

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Show Notes & Links

• DB2 Cancun Release 10.5.0.4 (also known as Fix Pack 4)
• What are BLU Shadow Tables?
• developerWorks has an article with technical details on BLU Shadow Tables
• DB2 Express-C was refreshed at the Fixpack 4 level
• pureScale Light
• pureScale is now supported in virtualized environments
• DB2 is not affected by the “Shellshock” bash vulnerability
• Plan your IBM Insight conference on the new portal
• IDUG’s September Content theme was XML / JSON
• JSONx WTF?
• Fred ran out of CLI statement handles

Recorded July 17, 2014 • 48 minutes

Fred and Ian talk about the latest DB2 News; Bluemix becoming Generally Available; Apple and IBM pairing up, and the fall conference season.

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Show Notes & Links

• Monitorama

• World Domination Summit

• BlueMix became GA on June 30 with very reasonable pricing

• BlueMix calls their vanilla DB2-as-a-service “SQL Database”, just like Microsoft Azure’s SQL Server DBaaS.

• xkoto Gridscale

• Just like Microsoft and HP, IBM is also hell-bent on scary-ass future tech, to the tune of $600M per year through 2019

• Apple & IBM sitting in a tree, S-E-L-L-I-N-G

• Happy Birthday PaulZ

• Watson “Cognitive Cooking” takes over Bon Appétit’s test kitchen

• Keyser Söze

• How House of Cards uses Big Data

• No Doubt will be playing at IBM Insight

• Check Vdara for cheap, non-ghetto hotel rooms during IBM Insight

• Ian will be speaking at IDUG in Prague

• Nice graphical view of the session grid is now online

• Ian’s article on Redefining High Availability for Data Warehouses at IDUG.org

Recorded June 25, 2014 • 47 minutes

Fred and Ian talk about the latest DB2 News, summer experiments, Optimization Profiles, and some interesting hardware developments that could impact DB2 in the future.

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Show Notes & Links

• Luis Suarez bites Giorgio Chiellini during 2014 FIFA World Cup
• The iTunes Library XML file
• Rare instance of XPath trick to find next/previous sibling in pureXML
• Download a copy of the DB2 10.5 PDF Documentation
• The new Architecting & Deploying IBM DB2 with BLU Acceleration… Redbook
• Is BlueMix going GA on June 30?
• developerWorks clone of StackOverflow
• Who is DB2 expert mustaccio on StackOverflow? More importantly, is he/she a PkgCache listener?
• Intel is creating a Xeon processor with an integrated FPGA
• HP threatens the world with “The Machine”, which will inevitably pave the way for Terminators

Recorded May 26, 2014 • 40 minutes

Fred and Ian talk about the latest DB2 News; their impressions and take aways from IDUG’s conference in Phoenix; data encryption in BLU for Cloud; and they discuss how to handle database security patches that come out.

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Show Notes & Links

• Fred really enjoyed Paavo Tukia’s talk on Capturing DB2 monitor data with Deltas
• Ian meant to link to Adam Storm’s session on populating BLU tables efficiently in episode 14
• Mike Rohde’s Sketchnotes
  • Mike Rohde sketched a talk from PDX design beardo Aaron Draplin
• Guy Lohman
• Michael Stonebraker
• DB2 10.1 Fix Pack 4 was released on May 22^nd or May 23^rd
• @angoca put together a list of Fixpack Release Dates
• A handful of nasty DB2 LUW security issues were also fixed

Recorded May 13, 2014 • 44 minutes

Dan Luksetich (Supreme Leader of Beer, IDUG Content Committee chair and the “Podfather” of DB2 podcasts) invited Fred and Ian on to his podcast, The DB2 Cocktail Hour, to discuss Big Data and why both keynotes at IDUG’s DB2 Technical conference in Phoenix weren’t about DB2.

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The DB2 Cocktail Hour Series 1 Podcast 13 – Distilling Big Data
Featuring (but not sponsored by) Evan Williams Single Barrel Vintage Bourbon and Rittenhouse Straight Rye Whiskey. Chris enjoyed The Macallan 12 Year Old Single Malt Scotch Whisky (on the rocks, but we won’t hold that against him). The sound-check warm-up round was Bulleit Rye.

Recorded April 24, 2014 • 39 minutes

Fred and Ian talk about the latest DB2 News and discuss all things IDUG in preparation for the North American DB2 Technical Conference coming up in Phoenix from May 12^th – 16^th, 2014.

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News

• Phoenix weather during IDUG
• Fred is curating content for IDUG index month
• IBM Power8 Systems have been announced
• Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr is supported on Power8
• Taking notes on paper may be better than typing on a laptop

IDUG 2014 in Phoenix, May 12^th-16^th

IDUG Dine Around

• Pizzeria Bianco
• The Arrogant Butcher

Other places to eat in Phoenix

• Durant’s
• The battle over the origin of the chimichanga
• Macayo’s
• Burn your tongue at Los Dos Molinos

Friends don’t let friends drink crappy coffee, so go here instead:

• Cartel Coffee Lab
• Royal Coffee Bar

What to do around Phoenix

• Arizona Diamondbacks Baseball
• Uber is a great option for getting around. Get $10 off your first ride when you sign up with promo code “ubermacgruber”
• Musical Instrument Museum
• Mayo Clinic Scottsdale
• Desert Botanical Garden
• Dale Chihuly’s desert glass sculptures might be more dangerous than the cacti around it.

• Taliesin West

Outside of Phoenix (other than the Grand Canyon, of course)

• Arizona Sonora Desert Museum
• San Xavier del Bac, the White Dove of the Desert
• Pima Air Museum
• Davis Monthan Air Force Base Airplane Boneyard

Fred and Ian’s Conference Session Picks

• D12 – Top 5 Cool tricks with DB2 LUW – Adam Storm
• D08 – Safeguarding Your Database Traffic – Walid Rjaibi
• F02 – Behind the Curtain: How BLU Acceleration Achieves Great Performance – Guy Lohman
• D01 / D02 – DB2 Internals for Administrators – Matt Huras
• D10 – High Availability Two Step: HADR and Power-HA – Ember Crooks
• C14 – HADR and Performance – a marriage made in heaven – Dale McInnis
• SIG 1B: Fun with SQL – a.k.a. “the SQL Dojo”

Recorded March 23, 2014 • 36 minutes

Fred and Ian talk about the latest DB2 News, measuring DBA effectiveness and how far the BLU for Cloud beta has come in just a few months.

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Show Notes & Links

• Miracle of the Andes
• Craig Mullins on Measuring DBA Effectiveness
• Eat the Rich: A Treatise on Economics by P. J. O’Rourke
• NPR: Planet Money Podcast
• Vote for Ian on DB2’s Got Talent S4
• Borat lives all over twitter
• Fred will be speaking at SWARUG in Phoenix in April
• The science behind 18 minute TED Talks
• Too many notes
• Embarcadero buys ERwin from CA
• BLU for Cloud Open Beta
• Leon Katsnelson’s DB2-L Post Comparing BLU for Cloud to a $600 Hugo Boss suit (IDUG login required)

Recorded March 9, 2014 • 36 minutes

Fred and Ian talk about the latest DB2 News, DB2 10.5 Fixpack 3, DB2’s Got Talent, and the announcements from IBM Pulse.

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Show Notes & Links

• Warren Buffet’s $1 Billion March Madness Challenge
• See Melanie Stopfer give her DB2 10.5 Upgrade Tips at IDUG in Phoenix
• 10.5 FP3 is available. Finally!
• IBM SSH Server for Windows
• DB2’s Got Talent Season 4
  • Make sure to vote for finalists!
• Mike Krafick’s great presentation on column masking
• DB2 Best Practices papers are now a Wiki. Kind of.
• IBM Knowledge Center will be out of beta soon
• Max Webster
• IBM Pulse conference
• ibmbluhub.com
• IBM’s Codename: Bluemix
• IBM spends another $1 billion dollars and acquires Cloudant
• Rakesh Ranjan’s guide to BlueMix