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• Best practices: Expanding an IBM Smart Analytics System

  Use these best practices to learn how to identify, plan, and prepare for an expansion of your system, including how to understand the options involved in your expansion project.

• Using InfoSphere Optim High Performance Unload as part of a recovery strategy in an IBM Smart Analytics System

  Learn the best practices for unloading, extracting, and repartitioning data in DB2 for Linux, UNIX, and windows databases. Using High Performance Unload, you can move large volumes of data quickly by reading directly from backup images or table space containers rather than relying on the DB2 software layer.

• Back up, restore, and roll forward in an InfoSphere Warehouse data partitioning environment

  Learn how to back up and restore your database in a partitioned database environment. This article introduces the basics and demonstrates step-by-step the process of backup, recovery, and rollforward.

• Effectively use DB2 data movement utilities in a data warehouse environment

  Learn how to choose the proper data movement technique to efficiently move data between different systems in a large data warehouse. Explore a comparative study of the various methods for data movement.

• DB2 best practices: Implementing DB2 workload management in a data warehouse

  Achieve a stable, predictable system, maximizing output without overloading capacity, using a well-planned workload management system.

• Online roll-out with table partitioning in InfoSphere Warehouse

  Learn how online detach improves availability of the warehouse and discover best practices for leveraging and monitoring the new behavior. Also learn how the same procedure can be used to simulate synchronous detach behavior.

• Create an active-active data warehouse topology using IBM InfoSphere Warehouse

  Meet your needs for a fully integrated disaster recovery architecture. The topology explained in this article lets you leverage your data warehouse hardware and software investments in an active-active availability environment.

• Demo: Informix Warehouse Accelerator: Create a data mart

  Create a data mart definition, validate its structure, deploy the data mart, and load data, using this new, high-performing warehouse feature for Informix.

• Configure and monitor InfoSphere Warehouse with Optim Performance Manager Extended Insight

  Collaborate more efficiently with IT staff by providing them overview, alert, and diagnostic dashboards to simplify the analysis of SQL statement response times of your InfoSphere Warehouse applications.