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August 26, 2005

Useful New Mainframe DB2 Info on the Web

For those of you who work primarily with DB2 on the mainframe, here are some very useful new sources of information on the web.

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Posted by Craig Mullins at 3:17 PM

August 16, 2005

Some Highly Recommended Database Books

In an earlier post I listed what I believe to be the classic computer books that belong on every IT professional's bookshelf. This list focused on non-database books, but I promised that I would list my favorite data-related books in a future blog entry. So, in todays blog I will recommend some of my favorite database books.

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Posted by Craig Mullins at 3:46 PM

August 11, 2005

Jumping on the Open Source DB Bandwagon

Open source database systems continue to gain in popularity, and in commercial companies looking to profit from them.

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Posted by Craig Mullins at 6:40 PM

August 9, 2005

DBA Certification

In this blog entry I attempt to answer some questions about certification: Namely:

- what is certification?

- why is it so popular?

- and is certification worth it for DBAs?

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Posted by Craig Mullins at 5:38 PM

August 6, 2005

On Firemen, Web Time, and Service Levels

In this blog entry I take the time to rant about some of what is ailing the "discipline" of database administration.

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Posted by Craig Mullins at 6:50 PM

August 3, 2005

More Random Thoughts

Another entry in my semi-regular "random thoughts" series.

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Posted by Craig Mullins at 4:56 PM