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How to Prepare to Pass a DB2 Certification Exam
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IBM Champions at IDUG, Orlando - April 29 - May 3
As usual, IBM Champions are well represented at IDUG this year. Gain knowledge from this group of talented and hardworking people, who I consider IBM’s best friends! I’ve done my best to pull out all the sessions that IBM Champions are taking part in at the IDUG DB2 Tech Conference in Orlando, Florida, USA 2013 Orlando, Florida April 29th - May 3rd, 2013 If I missed any, please let me know and I’ll update this entry. Monday April 29 - Full Day Educational Seminars DB2 z/OS DBA... [More]
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Now available: DB2 10.5 with BLU Acceleration
We’ve been talking about this release for the past few months and the time is now here where the product is available to be purchased. You can begin realizing the amazing benefits of this technology at once. Rather than tell you what DB2 BLU is, I’m going to tell you what others are saying about it. DB2 for Linux, UNIX and Windows Product website : Here you’ll find the official announcement information about the product and IBM contact information if you need prices... [More]
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Details about DB2 Certifcation Program
First I gave you the benefits of getting certified , then the overall procedure to follow to get certified, now the details on the DB2 certification program. Each
exam has a time limit of 90 minutes, except the upgrade exam which has
a time limit of 60 minutes. The number of questions and the cutscore
for each exam varies. For example, exam 730 has 64 questions and you
must score 59 percent or higher to pass it. How do I prepare to pass an exam? Here is the recommended path I suggest you take to prepare for a DB2 exam: 1)
Choose the exam... [More]
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Certification Crammer Courses: IOD pre-conference training
Once you register for IOD you’ll be sent a confirmation email that will tell you about the pre-conference education sessions that are available. Maybe you’ve heard of these before. They are full day classes that go deep in a particular topic. These classes have an additional cost. Six of the classes are Certification Crammer Courses. These remain popular year after year and help you prepare to pass one of the free certification exams that are offered at the conference to attendees. These classes are taught by well-known experts who... [More]
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DB2 9.7 for Linux, UNIX and Windows: Certification Roles and Exams
The following exams were created to coincide with the product DB2 9.7 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows (LUW): Exam 541 - DB2 9.7 for LUW Database Administrator Number of questions: 60 Time allowed in minutes: 90 Required passing score: 61% Exam Objectives Courses Assessment Exam Passing this exam, along with pre-requisite Exam 730 , will earn you the following Professional Certification: IBM Certified Database Administrator, DB2 9.7 for LUW Books & Tutorials : Book: DB2 9.7 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows Database Administration: Certification... [More]
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Best practices: Using High Performance Unload (HPU) as part of a Recovery strategy
The Warehouse team has been busy creating yet another best practice paper. Best practices: Using High Performance Unload (HPU) as part of a Recovery strategy IBM InfoSphere Optim High Performance Unload (HPU) for DB2 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows V4.2 is a high-speed tool for unloading, extracting, and repartitioning data in DB2 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows databases. HPU unloads large volumes of data quickly by reading directly from full, incremental, and delta backup images or table space containers rather than through the DB2 software... [More]
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Book Promotions for the Month of February 2011
Are you looking for some good technical books to read in order to enhance your skills? For the month of February, you can purchase a number of amazing books and save money while doing it. Let me start with the offers from IBM’s publishing partner, IBM Press: 1) If you are a member of IDUG, you can always get 45% off of books published by IBM Press. How? Go to IDUG’s home page and click on the icon on the bottom right corner. This will give you the instructions needed to get your discount. See a previous blog entry for more... [More]
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DB2 pureScale: Risk Free Agile Scaling
DB2 pureScale: Risk Free Agile Scaling by Paul Zikopoulos , Matt Huras , Aamer Sachedina , Paul
Awad Book Information on our Blog Amazon version Electronic
version (5.8MB) DB2 9 is a leading-edge hybrid data server that offers optimum storage, scalability, and availability. DB2 pureScale is a new technology primarily optimize d for scale-out transactional processing clusters in an active-active manner. This succinct guide will show you how DB2 with pureScale can provide you transparent application scalability, the ability to deliver... [More]
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BLU at IOD: Highlights from 2013
This year's IOD conference was amazing! Record crowds, lots of events, great people, and for the first time ever, our beloved product DB2 was front & center! DB2 with BLU Acceleration is clearly a winner and you had no trouble learning about it at IOD: the whole conference was painted BLU! I've put together this rather large slideshare to show you what I mean. I presented these slides to the development team and the feedback was awesome. Throughout the slides, I've added links that will allow you to... [More]
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Certification Study Guides for DB2 LUW Exams
I work in the Toronto Lab where we have at least 2500 employees. We're lucky enough to have a library where local employees may borrow books. This morning I shared the elevator with a couple of people carrying one of the books by Roger Sanders . The book is affectionately known as the "red book" and the one that I saw clearly came from the library and was so well-used it was amazing! It makes me happy to see that there are so many people here at the lab who prepare and take the certification exams. List of Roger's books :... [More]
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All about IDUG DB2 Tech Conference - Anaheim
Friday on the DB2Night Show, host Scott Hayes invited Bryan Paulsen and Paul Turpin to talk about the upcoming IDUG conference: Bryan Paulson , John Deere, Volunteer of IDUG – current chair Paul Turpin – S1, Volunteer of IDUG - past chair First thing to notice is that the name of the conference has changed. It is now the IDUG DB2 Tech Conference. They made the name change to help people get funding to attend the conference. The conference takes place May 2-6, in Anaheim California. This is the first time an IDUG conference has taken place... [More]
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Certification Offer: Assess & Save, until Dec 14, 2012
Back by popular demand: Assess & Save : Advance your career - Save 50% on IBM Professional Certification for Information Management Professionals Gauge
your readiness for certification by purchasing and completing an online
assessment test. Pass an Information Management Online Assessment Test
from November 1, 2012 through December 14, 2012 to qualify for the 50 percent certification savings voucher. If
you pass the test, you'll automatically receive an electronic 50
percent savings voucher good toward the corresponding... [More]
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Chat with the Lab: Advanced Recovery Solutions for DB2 LUW
The next Chat with the Lab takes place next Thursday, Jan 26 from 12:30 – 2:00 pm. Join Rav Ahuja and Bill Minor (DB2 Tooling Development Team) for a discussion about Advanced Recovery Solutions. Details: Register Now Date: Thurs, Jan 26, 2012 Time: 12:30-2:00 PM Eastern / 11:30 AM Central / 9:30 AM Pacific / 17:30hrs London / 18:30hrs Frankfurt, Paris / India 11 PM Abstract: The availability and integrity of data is critical to the business enterprise. When a problem occurs and your data is compromised or unavailable, it is paramount to... [More]
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Just Launched: Netezza Underground Blog
Today marks the first day of the new blog by David Birmingham called “ Netezza Underground ”. As you may remember, IBM purchased Netezza not that long ago. To refresh your memory, here is a description in the Press Release, IBM Completes Acquisition Of Netezza : Netezza data warehouse appliances bring analytics directly into the hands of business users within every department of an organization such as sales, marketing, product development and human resources. The simplicity of deploying Netezza appliances makes the technology ideal for... [More]
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