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by Jim Connolly, Editorial Director
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Think of all the great ideas being floated by vendors, service providers and consultants: You can junk your big Unix servers for a few hundred cheap Intel servers. You can add Linux to your mainframe. You can consolidate a half-dozen data centers into two, or decentralize from two to six. You can implement an on-demand computing strategy, assuming you can find two experts who agree on what on-demand means. You can go with bricks, blades, Windows, clusters or virtualization.
Notice one common thread in all these options, dear data center manager: The experts want you to do all this work, you to sort through the options, and you to implement revolutionary technologies and strategies.
The editors in TechTarget's Data Center Media Group, which includes six Web sites and next June's Data Center Decisions Conference, want to help you to not just wrestle with these concepts, but to succeed. We can draw on the knowledge of vendor-independent experts and the experiences of your peers to identify the best ways for you to solve business problems with new approaches to computing. We can help you to sort out the buzzwords from reality.
I'm responsible for identifying new site features, conference agenda items and trends that impact all data center managers. So, I'm asking for your input: What data center-related challenges keep you awake at night? What type of information can we provide you to keep your data center running efficiently?
Please send me your thoughts. Have a great week!
Jim Connolly
Editorial Director
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Life as a DBA
by Tim DiChiara, Senior Site Editor
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The DBA life has always been challenging but now new threats are emerging. The tips and advice inside will guide you along the perilous path to becoming a database guru...
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Featured Expert Rudy Limeback, Web and SQL Design Consultant, r937.com
Category: SQL
Rudy has worked with commercial databases since the mid-1970's, starting with IDMS, a Codasyl network system, and progressing through IBM's DB2 and Microsoft's SQL Server relational databases. He has developed data warehouses and transactional databases, always with an emphasis on making them easy to use for developers and end users alike. He specializes in writing SQL statements that are simple and easy to maintain. Rudy now operates r937.com, developing databases for use with dynamic Web
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Ask the Expert: Deleting N rows from a DB2 table
Our DB2 expert Craig Mullins answers the question: "How can I delete N rows from a DB2 table? How can I retrieve the bottom N rows without sorting the table on key? ?" |
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| Tip of the Week: |
DB2 database design and principles of peak performance
Many design decisions made early during the development process can have a significant influence on the performance of your DB2 applications and databases. This article provides some general guidelines and recommendations for achieving better DB2 performance in z/OS environments. |
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