by Mark Mulligan | Apr 27, 2009
There are DB2 LUW configuration parameters that can be set to AUTOMATIC and managed by the DB2 automatic memory manager (STMM). One advantage of this is that DB2 will automatically adjust the memory it uses to get the work done based on the characteristics of the...
by Mark Mulligan | Nov 26, 2008
Mark Mulligan – (mark.mulligan.sr@sbcglobal.net) DB2 DBA 29 November 2008 Download Scripts Introduction Have you ever run the db2 “call get_dbsize_info(?,?,?,0)” command to get the size of your DB2 LUW database and noticed that the size is much smaller...
by Mark Mulligan | Nov 21, 2008
Mark Mulligan – (mark.mulligan.sr@sbcglobal.net) DB2 DBA 16 November 2008 Introduction If you have application jobs or users that run the DB2 load utility and would like to keep track of this information over time there is valuable information stored in the DB2...
by Mark Mulligan | Nov 14, 2008
Mark Mulligan – (mark.mulligan.sr@sbcglobal.net) DB2 DBA 01 November 2008 A critical part of any database disaster recovery plan is to make sure that the environment surrounding the database is the way it was before the disaster in order to provide the same level of...
by Mark Mulligan | Apr 30, 2008
Self-tuning memory was first introduced in IBM ® DB2 ® 9.1 and simplifies the task of memory configuration by automatically setting optimal values for most memory configuration parameters, including buffer pools, package cache, locking memory, sort heap, and total...
by Mark Mulligan | Apr 1, 2008
Introduction This article discusses DB2 LUW Deep Compression from the perspective of someone who planned, organized, communicated and coordinated the implementation of this in development, test, regression test and production environments for multi-terabyte data...
