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• Cover story: Press the answer button: by Michael Kearney
  Take a tour of the Netezza appliance from the inside out and learn some of the ways that it advances the state of the art in data warehousing and analytics.
  
• Solid-state drives: Changing the data world by Paul Pendle
  Solid state drives represent a quantum leap in enterprise storage performance over hard disk drives and Fibre Channel drives. With these new drives, you may need to reevaluate some of the ways that you deal with databases, as the move from spinning disks to solid-state technology will change the rules.
  
• Go back in time: Get started with temporal data by Sasirekha Rameshkumar
  A new feature in IBM DB2 Version 10 gives you the ability to manage multiple versions of data and track changes over time. Learn how you can manage temporal data using simple SQL statements to maintain a history of database changes, track effective business dates, and analyze the history of changes.
  
• Modeling trains with SPSS by Marc Fiammante and Gregory Neuveglise
  The ability to predict a failure before it happens is tremendously valuable. Learn how an IBM team worked with a train manufacturer to develop this capability using IBM SPSS Modeler and DB2. In this instance the team used SPSS to identify patterns in data and DB2 to handle moderately complex mathematical calculations directly within SQL.
  

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• NewsBytes by IBM Data Management magazine staff
  Get the latest IBM database news in this wide-ranging summary of topics, including InfoSphere Warehouse terabyte pricing, new big data analysis tools, new recovery tools, new Informix technologies to increase performance, business partner news, and much more.
  
• IDUG user view: A little help from your friends by Jeremy Dodd
  If you want to learn more about DB2, IDUG forums are the place to be. IDUG president Jeremy Dodd talks about using the forums as a place to talk over DB2 experiences such as going directly from DB2 8 to DB2 10 for z/OS.
  
• IIUG user view: Happy 10th anniversary to IBM and Informix by Stuart Litel
  IBM and Informix have been together for 10 years, and are still producing technological milestones. IIUG president Stuart Litel talks about why Informix remains his RDBMS of choice.
  
• Data architect: The rise of the developer DBA by Robert Catterall
  With the development of autonomic features in DB2, DBAs are taking their careers forward in new and interesting ways. Robert Catterall talks about how they are leveraging their SQL knowledge and experience to speed application development projects in many companies.
  
• Distributed DBA: Automatic Storage Databases by Roger E. Sanders
  Learn how database storage is simplified and optimized when you use automatic storage databases in DB2 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows.
  
• Programmers Only: PLANs + COLLECTIONs + VERSIONs + PACKAGEs + DBRMs = Confusion by Bonnie Baker
  Columnist Bonnie Baker revisits a popular topic, the program preparation process for DB2 for z/OS. She cuts through the confusion using a COBOL batch program as her example.
  
• Informix DBA: Informix Warehouse Accelerator by Lester Knutsen
  The Informix Warehouse Accelerator combines new data warehouse technology with traditional relational database technology. Learn how the author's benchmark went from 9 hours and 40 minutes to just over 15 minutes using this new technology.
  
• Smarter is: Saving minds, saving lives by David Geer
  Columbia University Medical Center's Neuro-ICU uses IBM InfoSphere Streams software to isolate early warning signs of a damaging and often deadly stroke complication.
  

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