IBM DB2 Reports

ANALYST REPORT: Conducted by the research firm ORC International, this study found that performing common database management tasks for Oracle Database 11g R2 took less time and fewer resources than performing the same tasks for DB2 Enterprise 9.7. Although funded by Oracle, the study was independently conducted by ORC.

Posted: 06 Sep 2011 | Published: 06 Sep 2011

EBOOK: Read this e-book to learn how to fully automate the management of all SAP components and related products running on z/OS, AIX®, or Linux®. The automation software monitors all resources and controls the restart and/or takeover of failing components, thereby ensuring near continuous availability of the SAP system.

Posted: 10 Oct 2011 | Published: 31 Oct 2008

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: Read this presentation transcript now and learn about these advances that are possible by combining the Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 product family with IBM DB2 10 for Linux, Unix and Windows.

Posted: 30 Apr 2012 | Published: 17 Apr 2012

RESOURCE: Learn about why it matters that IBM DB2 is easier to administer than Oracle. Triton case study.

Posted: 07 Jun 2011 | Published: 07 Jun 2011

WHITE PAPER: Application developers and DBAs looking to migrate databases due to cost concerns, staffing problems, or technology issues should consider this new database compatability layer option to mitigate risk, lower migration cost, and speed the migration process.

Posted: 10 Jun 2011 | Published: 06 Jun 2011

CASE STUDY: Learn how Key Energy Services, Inc., the largest rig-based oil well services company in the industry, is using Robot/SCHEDULE - the automated, job scheduler and batch management software across multiple platforms.

Posted: 19 Oct 2009 | Published: 19 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: This report compares the costs and compression, automation, workload management, and optimization capabilities of DB2 Advanced Enterprise Server Edition (AESE) versus Oracle Database 11g. It also emphasizes the importance of performance management tooling as a means of lowering total cost of ownership (TCO).

Posted: 21 Feb 2012 | Published: 31 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: This article is the first in a series and provides an in-depth view of performance and workload management.

Posted: 17 May 2011 | Published: 17 May 2011

WHITE PAPER: This paper discusses how and why to design SQL that will reduce the number of times calls are made to DB2. We'll look at how to write SMART applications rather than writing applications that act like generic I/O modules to DB2, properly tune SMART SQL, and how to exploit SQL and application features in DB2 on z/OS version 8 and 9.

Posted: 30 Nov 2009 | Published: 30 Nov 2009

WHITE PAPER: This IBM® Redbooks® Solution Guide provides an overview of IBM FlashSystem™ running in a DB2® environment with a focus on performance and the benefits gained from running DB2 with Flash storage.

Posted: 09 May 2014 | Published: 09 May 2014