While I have been on vacation, and in several occasions, I twittered how I lost faith on technology and the Web in general, due to an incident that happened to me while I was away and which, after several weeks gone by, I am still suffering from. Here is a blog post to share my thoughts on what happens when you have one of the best offline feed reader clients out there and all of a sudden you withdraw

Today I have two APARs that I recommend you check out: PK44133 and PK55239. One APAR is for DB2 9 and the other is for DB2 Version 8; I need to have a little something for everyone. First we'll take a look at the APAR for DB2 9 for z/OS. APAR

My Pet Peeve of the Week is

This week, my essay is entitled,

Siebel developers/technologists and Fusion Middleware developers: Get technical, hands-on content for service-enabling Siebel and then building integrations, business processes, and composite applications.

Hear Russell Handley, Director, UPK Product Marketing, discuss the much anticipated release of UPK 3.1, and how it can benefit enterprises of all sizes, across all geographies.

First blog post in the New Year, after first day at work going through a massively huge catchup on what's been going on for the last three weeks I have been away and already sharing a couple of interesting links on social computing related topics, just to keep things going in 2008 with what this blog has been about all along...

New York state Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has launched an antitrust investigation of Intel, and on Thursday, his office served a wide-ranging subpoena on the company.

I thought I would start the year with some basics as I have had a lot of people asking me to cover off some of the basics of backup and recovery. So let’s first start with backup basics. In DB2 for LUW, I often talk about the backup feature producing a logical backup image. By logical I mean that DB2 does not backup the physical files that make up your tablespaces and database but rather

Microsoft has announced the resignation of its head of acquisitions, Bruce Jaffe, two days after the company bid $1.2 billion for enterprise search expert Fast Search & Transfer. Jaffe will retire on Feb. 29, the company said.

In my mini-tips I try to answer FAQs that I get either here on the blog or via email. I get the below question a lot. I recently received this email from a reader: So if I have an anonymous block that populates a table, how do I convert the block to a procedure, so I can schedule it to populate a table weekly? If you've done this before, you know it's not that much

Cable-modem service provider Comcast said Wednesday that it would welcome a U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) investigation into its broadband traffic management practices.

I've been thinking long and hard about how I want to give away a few copies of my book. I will be at the SOUG meeting Thursday, Jan 24th here in Tampa. If you're in the area, stop by. I'm going to have a drawing for a couple of copies that night. That

This morning I listened in on Phil Grainger's DB2 9 webcast ("DB2 9 for z/OS Pre-Reqs, Migrations, Deprecations") and it reminded me of something that has always bothered me about blogging. You blog in the "today". A blog is very much like have a conversation with someone. Most people don't tend to index all their conversations on the off chance they need to reference one they had a few

Major vendors including Hewlett-Packard, Dell, and Sony are working together to push through a legislative mandate in the United States that will make it easier for users to recycle their consumer electronics.

The European Commission ended its antitrust investigation into Apple after the company agreed to reduce the price of music downloads from its iTunes Web site in the U.K., the European Union's antitrust regulator said Wednesday.

A 30 percent stake in Hewlett-Packard's Chinese operations is up for sale to the highest bidder as the company's Chinese partner looks to sell its shares.

Practical Oracle Security

• Size: 250 pages
• Paperback: $49.95
• PDF (from Syngress.com): $19.98
• Publisher: Syngress (August 15, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1597491985
• ISBN-13: 978-1597491983

Let me start this review by saying I have never heard of Syngress, the publisher. From a little research, I found

My editor sent me the tentative release schedule for The IT Career Builder's Toolkit: Your Complete Guide To Building Your Technology Career In Any Economy I was reading it the other day (yes, occassionally I read what I wrote) and I like it - conversational, humorous at parts, attitude driven, but very pragmatic advice. Section 1: An Introduction to Career Building is set to be released

Oh wait, that's not exactly true... My book's ranking has been jumping around a bit. However, as I a couple of years ago, my book is not located in the Books > Computers & Internet > Business & Culture > Careers - category Interesting enough, the top two books in the above category (as of this writing) are: Construction Management Jumpstart & How to DJ Right: The Art & Science