Instead of typing too much, it is always better to have some utility scripts that makes life easier. Before doing any debugging, I always like to test the time on all servers to make sure that it is same. In past, I have spent hours to find the root cause of a problem and later to discover that the server time was off on all machines. So, using runall scripts comes very handy. Sameway, when I am building a golden image for either DB2 BLU DPF or pureScale, I need to copy same script from one server to all others, runscp scripts comes very handy.

C Mohan talk has been given as a keynote during the BIRTE 2016 conference held in conjunction with VLDB 2016 and in the ACM SIGMOD China Workshop held in conjunction with the 33rd Chinese National Database Conference (NDBC 2016).

A new era is emerging in the world of distributed computing with the growing popularity of blockchains (shared, replicated and distributed ledgers) and the associated databases as a way of integrating inter-organizational work. Originally, the concept of a distributed ledger was invented as the underlying technology of the cryptocurrency Bitcoin.