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• Cover story: Five to watch: Data warehouse trends you need to know by John Edwards
  What you need to know about five trends that are reshaping the data warehouse landscape
  
  
• High score: Mining models tested on InfoSphere Balanced Warehouse by Jack Baker and John B. Rollins, Ph.D., P.E.
  Parallelized scoring performance with an SAS PMML model in InfoSphere Balanced Warehouse
  
  
• Six keys to real-time analytics by Leah MacMillan
  Are you getting all you can out of your analytics initiatives?
  
  
• Public service gets smarter by Tam Harbert
  Data warehousing and business intelligence help the public sector share and analyze valuable data stores
  
  
• Sharing knowledge, driven by passion by Scott Bisang
  Meet the newest IBM Information Champions from India: Raghuveer Babu and Pradeep Kumar
  
  
• Online-exclusive: Gauge SQE use in DB2 for i 6.1 by Scott Forstie

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• News Bytes by IBM Data Management magazine staff
  News on IMS 11, Information Management Communities, the Data in Action Virtual Conference, and more
  
  
• IDUG User View: Top performance features in DB2 9 for z/OS by Dave Beulke
  Indexing, compression make your applications work faster
  
  
• IIUG User View: Uptime, conference time, revenue time by Stuart Litel
  I'm no data warehouse expert, but Informix Warehouse looks pleasantly familiar
  
  
• Data Architect: System z rocks (again) by Robert Catterall
  The mainframe isn't dead--in fact, it's turning heads as a data warehouse platform
  
  
• Data Manager: Right-sized analytics by Merv Adrian
  Rooms To Go finds a data warehouse-driven solution that fits its midsized business
  
  
• Distributed DBA: Using materialized query tables by Roger E. Sanders
  Boost database response time for complex queiries in IBM DB2 for Linux, UNIX and Windows
  
  
• Informix DBA: Fastest Informix DBA: How did they do it? by Lester Knutsen
  Here are the techniques that worked for the Fastest Informix DBA contest winners
  
  
• Programmers Only: Reducing conversations with DB2 for z/OS: Part 1 by Bonnie Baker
  As Prem Mehra said, "There is no better-performing SQL than the SQL that is not executed"
  
  
• Tips and Tricks: Customizing XML storage in DB2 by Matthias Nicola
  Tailor XML storage to the needs of your application
  
  
• Smarter Is...Boosting the IQ of Galway Bay by Chris Young
  Marine Institute Ireland monitors conditions in real time with IBM InfoSphere Streams software

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