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Craig Mullins: Perspectives on Database Management Craig Mullins: Perspectives on Database Management

A few random thoughts today.
Wednesday, July 25, 2007  |  Permalink |  Comments (2)
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Attend a free webinar on DB2 database design on July 25, 2007 at 10:30 am CST.
Monday, July 09, 2007  |  Permalink |  Comments (0)
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Assuring optimal performance for database applications can be a tricky thing. In today's blog I ruminate on the high-level issues involved in optimizing your DB2 for z/OS applications.
Wednesday, June 13, 2007  |  Permalink |  Comments (1)
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If a book has anything at all to do with data, data management, or database systems, then I’m interested in it. Since I gather and read (maybe not cover to cover for every one) many of the new database books on the market I thought I'd share my opinions on a few of my recent additions.
Monday, May 28, 2007  |  Permalink |  Comments (0)
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Attend a free webinar on database archiving on May 31, 2007 at 10:30 am CST.
Monday, May 21, 2007  |  Permalink |  Comments (2)
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A new series of blog postings dedicated to the features and functionality of DB2 9 for z/OS.
Monday, May 14, 2007  |  Permalink |  Comments (0)
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A closer look at what it takes to successfully archive data from your operational databases and preserve it for the long haul.
Sunday, May 06, 2007  |  Permalink |  Comments (0)
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This week I'm in Bonn, Germany attending a joint IMS Symposium and DB2 Symposium event.
Tuesday, April 24, 2007  |  Permalink |  Comments (0)
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It seems that some of my most popular blogs have been about salaries... I wonder why that is?
Wednesday, April 18, 2007  |  Permalink |  Comments (0)
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We keep hearing about data being breached, stolen, and nefariously accessed - but what is the cost of a data breach?
Monday, April 16, 2007  |  Permalink |  Comments (0)
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Another entry in my on-going series of favorite, helpful quotes for DBAs (and others)...
Monday, April 09, 2007  |  Permalink |  Comments (0)
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Because a picture is worth a thousand words, the ability to create pictures from our data might make mountains of data more useful.
Tuesday, April 03, 2007  |  Permalink |  Comments (0)
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Data quality is a problem, but here are four books that can help.
Monday, April 02, 2007  |  Permalink |  Comments (0)
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A nicly written article that details the bad habits that should avoided by all database administrators.
Friday, March 23, 2007  |  Permalink |  Comments (2)
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Finally, the true culprits are revealed!
Thursday, March 15, 2007  |  Permalink |  Comments (0)
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Last week (March 4 thru 8, 2007) I attended the annual DAMA Symposium & Meta-Data Conference in Boston, MA... and here are some of the highlights from the show.
Monday, March 12, 2007  |  Permalink |  Comments (0)
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An update from the DAMA Symposium and Meta-Data Conference in Boston.
Monday, March 05, 2007  |  Permalink |  Comments (0)
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Thoughts on why you should not ignore normalization during logical data modeling.
Thursday, March 01, 2007  |  Permalink |  Comments (0)
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Another installment in my semi-regular series of favorite quotes applicable to database administration.
Monday, February 12, 2007  |  Permalink |  Comments (1)
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...because their support is horrible.
Saturday, February 10, 2007  |  Permalink |  Comments (0)
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