IDUG 2008 – North America provided user-driven education and networking opportunities designed to fit the needs of DB2 database administrators on a Linux, Unix, or Windows platform. This year’s conference featured over 30 hours of technical sessions for DBAs on LUW covering a variety of topics including:
- Designing and Building databases
- Performance Monitoring and Tuning of the databases
- Enforcing standards for database use and security
- Insuring database recoverability, integrity, security, availability, reliability, and performance
- New features, High Availability, Very Large Databases
Opportunities for DBAs for LUW Include:
View a full listing of all technical sessions offered to address the needs of DB2 Database Administrators on Linux, Unix, or Windows platform.
Many attendees jump-started their IDUG educational experience with a pre-conference educational seminar. This year's conference offered nine full-day seminars presented by many of the world's foremost DB2 and Informix professionals, and included:
DB2 9 for LUW Database Administrator Certification Exam (Exam 731) Preparation
Roger E. Sanders, Network Appliance, Inc.
DB2 LUW Performance Diagnosis Lab
Scott Hayes, Database-Brothers, Inc.
Attendees were among the first to hear about future generations of DB2 for LUW by attending:
Top Ten Best Practices forDB2 LUW from IBM
Tim Vincent, IBM Toronto Lab
The combination of skill availability, increasingly complex technology options as well as increased business demand for a greater return on investment have pushed many IT engineering teams to either design or adopt know best practices. DB2 built the Balanced Warehouse, originally, Balanced Configuration Unit, around a set of proven methodolgies and practices that achieve the best overall performance and reliability. Our experience with the Balanced Warehouse and with engineering teams who have designed their own best practices has shown that the up front investment in defining the best practices they follow have reduced the overall number of skill resources needed, provided greater overall availability, and greater performance around their investment. Working closesly with partners and field teams the DB2 development team has defined a set of best practices around warehouse, OLTP, and SAP deployments.
Ask an IBM Developer
IBM's leading engineers for DB2 for Linux, UNIX, Windows gathered to address challenges as data management professionals. The format of this meeting was very simple: Ask a question, receive an answer from some of IBM's top development minds and decision-makers.
Moderator: Chris Eaton, IBM Toronto Lab
George Baklarz, IBM Worldwide DB2 Sales Support
John Hornibrook, IBM Toronto Lab
Matt Huras, IBM Toronto Lab
Leon Katsnelson, IBM Toronto Lab
Dale McInnis, IBM Toronto Lab
Tim Vincent, IBM Toronto Lab
Special Interest Groups
Attendes teamed up with peers, shared best practices, learned from subject-matter experts, and brainstormed solutions around a specialized area of interest through Special Interest Groups (SIGs). The following SIGs were offered at the conference:
User Feedback Opportunities
IDUG, in partnership with IBM, provided opportunities to give feedback on the usage and usability of DB2 \products and services at IDUG 2008 - North America. These User Feedback Opportunity (UFO) sessions, open to all registered attendees (users, vendors, and consultants), solicited opinions via product usability testing, demos, and Q&A formats. This year’s sessions included Workload Management, Designing Information for a DB2 Solution, and much more. View a full listing of these key product influence opportunities.
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