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 12th – 16th, 2014.
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Show Notes & Links
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 12th-16th
IDUG Dine Around
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:
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.
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”