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Articles Published in 2024

Santa’s Naughty or Nice List for Tech – 2024 Edition. elnion, December 13, 2024. Navigating the Open-Source Revolution in Database Management. Database Trends and Applications, December 12, 2024. SQL Quality Assurance for Db2 for z/OS. infotel blog, December 4, 2024. How DBAs Can Help to Safeguard Against Data Breaches. Database Trends and Applications, November 18, 2024. Handling Today’s Most Important Data Management Issue. elnion, November 17, 2024. A Zorse is a Zorse, Of Course, Of Course. elnion, November 2, 2024. Leveraging Memory for Db2 Performance Gains… Enterprise Executive, October 25, 2024. Five Critical Qualities for DBAs. Database Trends and Applications, October 10, 2024. The Ongoing Viability of COBOL in a Modern IT Landscape. elnion, October 10, 2024. DBAs and Data Governance. LinkedIn article, September 18, 2024. The Cloud Repatriation Trend: What It Means for the Future of IT Infrastructure. elnion, September 12, 2024. Is Your DBA a Curmudgeon in the Corner? Database Trends and Applications, September 12, 2024. Breaking the Ice with Apache Iceberg: Charting New Waters in Data Management. elnion, August 10, 2024. Riding the Waves of Knowledge at the IDUG Db2 Tech Conference. SHARE’d Intelligence Blog, August 8, 2024. Upgrading the DBMS: Poking a House of Cards. Database Trends and Applications, August 8, 2024. Tackling the Stress of the DBA Job. Database Trends and Applications, July 11, 2024. Data Lakehouse is the New Big Data. elnion, July 11, 2024. Resilience is a Key Quality for Databases… and DBAs! Database Trends and Applications, June 13, 2024. The Evolution of Data Management: A Modern DBA’s Perspective. elnion, June 10, 2024. Planning a Hybrid Cloud? Don’t Forget the Mainframe! elnion, May 22, 2024. The Importance of Automating Database Tasks. elnion, May 10, 2024. The DBA's Crucial Role in Data Lifecycle Management. Database Trends and Applications, May 9, 2024. Your Data is not Sedentary! elnion, April 12, 2024. Managing Test Data Is a Constant Struggle. Database Trends and Applications, April 11, 2024. Different Types of Database Management Systems. TechTarget, March 26, 2024. DBA in a Drum: Is AI Coming for the Database Administrator’s Job? elnion, March 23, 2024. High-Level Guidance and Advice for DBAs. Database Trends and Applications, March 14, 2024. CEO Conversations: Data Management Expert Insights with Craig S. Mullins. elnion, February 23, 2024. Collaboration is Required for Compliance. Database Trends and Applications, February 8, 2024. Put the zIIP in Java and COBOL Programs. SHARE’d Intelligence, February 8, 2024. Metadata Management Challenges. Database Trends and Applications, January 11, 2024.

Articles Published in 2023

No Money Should be Harmed. Planet Mainframe, December 28, 2023. Scalability + Performance: Different but Crucial Database Mgmt Capabilities. Database Trends and Applications, December 14, 2023. Data Privacy Regulations and Database Compliance: An Overview. elnion, November 17, 2023. What is a database administrator (DBA)? TechTarget, November 15, 2023. What is a database management system (DBMS)? TechTarget, November 13, 2023. How Many DBAs Do You Need? Database Trends and Applications, November 9, 2023. High-Level Database Performance Rules of Thumb. Database Trends and Applications, October 12, 2023. Does Unstructured Data Really Matter? elnion, October 12, 2023. IBM Utilities in Db2 13 for z/OS. Planet Mainframe, September 27, 2023. Security Features of Db2 13 for z/OS. Planet Mainframe, September 22, 2023. Availability, Resiliency, and Scalability in Db2 13 for z/OS. Planet Mainframe, September 18, 2023. The State of Database Administration 2023. Database Trends and Applications, September 14, 2023. Application Support Features in Db2 13 for z/OS. Planet Mainframe, September 12, 2023. AI and Db2 13 for z/OS. Planet Mainframe, September 8, 2023. A World of Functionality Delivered in Db2 13 for z/OS. Planet Mainframe, September 5, 2023. Metadata Management and Data Quality: Mandatory for Regulatory Compliance. elnion, August 15, 2023. Top 10 Performance Tuning Tips for IBM Db2. Planet Mainframe, August 11, 2023. The Role of the DBA in the Age of Cloud Computing. Database Trends and Applications, August 10, 2023. The Impact of AI on the DBA. TDAN, August 2, 2023. The Importance of Technical Conferences for On-Going DBA Education. Database Trends and Applications, July 13, 2023. The Changing World of the Database Management System. elnion, July 12, 2023. The Role of Mainframe Data in a Hybrid Cloud Environment. Cloudframe blog, June 29, 2023. Auditing Database Access and Change. TDAN, June 21, 2023. Techniques for Application Developers to Encourage zIIP Usage. CloudFrame blog, June 16, 2023. AI is Impacting the Role of the DBA. Database Trends and Applications, June 8, 2023. Lack of Proper Test Data Poses Bottleneck. TDAN, June 7, 2023. Harnessing Data to Drive Business Success. elnion, June 2, 2023. Strategies for Modernizing the Mainframe Experience. CloudFrame blog, May 22, 2023. Five Great Use Cases to Gain the Benefit of zIIPs. CloudFrame blog, May 15, 2023. Transforming a Logical Database Design to a Physical Database. Database Trends and Applications, May 11, 2023. Consider Application-Level Lock Control in Db2 13 for z/OS. Planet Mainframe, April 26, 2023. The Benefits and Challenges of Mainframe Application Modernization. CloudFrame blog, April 18, 2023. DBAs Need to Know the Essentials of Data Modeling. Database Trends and Applications, April 13, 2023. The Role Of Db2 DBAs In Promoting zIIP Usage. CloudFrame blog, April 12, 2023. The Test Data Management Struggles of Modern App Development. elnion, April 7, 2023. Common Misconspetions About zIIPs. CloudFrame blog, March 22, 2023. zIIPing Along with Mainframe Specialty Processors. elnion, March 11, 2023. Four Database Performance Management Principles. Database Trends and Applications, March 9, 2023. Why You Need to Know the Difference Between a TCB and an SRB. CloudFrame blog, March 1, 2023. Mainframe Cost Optimization: Full Capacity, Sub-Capacity, And Tailored-Fit. CloudFrame blog, February 15, 2023. Measuring Your DBAs. TDAN, February 15, 2023. The Importance of Metadata. Database Trends and Applications, February 9, 2023. Whither Goest Relational? elnion, February 8, 2023. What is the Average Cost per MIPS or MSU? Who Cares! CloudFrame blog, January 25, 2023. Database Capacity Planning. Database Trends and Applications, January 12, 2023. The Many Types of Mainframe Pricing. CloudFrame blog, January 12, 2023. Progress to Acquire MarkLogic. elnion, January 6, 2023. Public Cloud Continues to Grow But Not Without Challenges. elnion, January 4, 2023. NoSQL and Multimodel Database Use Cases. TDAN, January 4, 2023. Lack of Proper Test Data Poses Borrleneck for Software Development. Enterprise Tech Journal, Issue 6 | Dec 2022, Jan 2023.

Articles Published in 2022

Improving Mobile Access to Mainframe Assets. CloudFrame blog, Deccember 28, 2022. The Last MSU Is The Cheapest. CloudFrame blog, Deccember 22, 2022. Data Management Trends for 2023. elnion, December 15, 2022. Evaluating data warehouse deployment options and use cases. TechTarget, December 5, 2022. How to Measure Your DBAs. Database Trends and Applications, December 8, 2022. Protecting Your Sensitive Data Using Data Masking: A Guide. SHARE’d Intelligence, December 8, 2021. Evaluating data warehouse deployment options and use cases. TechTarget, December 5, 2022. Take Advantage of the Wealth of Information in Your Db2 Logs. Enterprise Tech Journal, Issue 5 | November 2022. MIPS versus MSUs: What’s the Difference? CloudFrame blog, November 11, 2022. Types of Database Recovery, Part 2. Database Trends and Applications, November 10, 2022. The Evaporation of Privacy. TDAN, November 2, 2022. The Whack-A-Mole Effect: Tuning Mainframe Usage for Cost Savings. CloudFrame blog, October 19, 2022. Understanding Mainframe Pricing to Aid in Modernization and Cost Control. CloudFrame blog, October 11, 2022. Types of Database Recovery, Part 1. Database Trends and Applications, October 6, 2022. What is DRDA? zIIPs and Distributed Db2 SQL. CloudFrame blog, September 29, 2022. Know Your Isolation Levels to Develop Correct and Efficient Db2 Programs. Planet Mainframe, September 20, 2022. Keeping Track of Data Movement in Db2 for z/OS. Enterprise Tech Journal, Issue 4 | September 2022. Three Reasons It Makes Sense to Convert Some of Your COBOL to Java. CloudFrame blog, September 15, 2022. The Importance of Service Level Agreements. Database Trends and Applications, September 8, 2022. IBM Db2 13 for z/OS SQL Data Insights. elnion, August 25 2022. A Trip to Boston, IDUG, and Db2 13 for z/OS. SHARE’d Intelligence, August 22, 2022. What is DataWarehouse-as-a-Service (DWaaS)? TechTarget, August 19, 2022. Evaluating the different types of DBMS products. TechTarget, August 18, 2022. What is Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS)? TechTarget, August 17, 2022. All About zIIPs. Planet Mainframe, August 11, 2022. Proper Data Types Pave the Road to Data Quality. Database Trends and Applications, August 11, 2022. Ingerate Database Archiving and Recovery. TDAN, August 3, 2022. What is a Database Administrator (DBA)? TechTarget, August 2, 2022. The Impact of Tailored Fit Pricing (TFP) on zIIPs. CloudFrame blog, July 29, 2022. What is a Database Management System (DBMS)? TechTarget, July 19, 2022. Mainframe Modernization is a Non-Sequitur. elnion, July 18 2022. Predictions for the Fuutre of zIIP and Specialty Processors. CloudFrame blog, July 18, 2022. Data Masking: An Imperative for Compliance and Governance. Enterprise Tech Journal, Issue 3 | July 2022. Techniques for Optimizing Databases. Database Trends and Applications, July 7, 2022. Best Practices for zIIP Using COBOL and Db2. CloudFrame blog, June 23, 2022. Time to Download the Db2 13 for z/OS Manuals! Planet Mainframe, June 3, 2022. Data Mesh? Data Fabric? I Don’t Care What You Call It, You Need It! elnion, June 3, 2022. Why You Must Ingerate Database Archiving and Recovery. Database Trends and Applications, June 2, 2022. Common zIIP Usage Mistakes and How to Identify Them. CloudFrame blog, May 26, 2022. Fast and Effective Db2 for z/OS Test Data Management. Enterprise Tech Journal, May 20, 2022. The Never-Ending To Do List of the DBA. TDAN, May 18, 2022. Data Professionals Ready to Head Back to In-Person Conferences. elnion, May 10, 2022. Managing Data Volume in Operational Databases. Database Trends and Applications, May 4, 2022. Why DBAs Must Automate to Survive. TDAN, May 4, 2022. DBA and the Cloud: Not Never, Always, All, or Nothing. elnion, April 22, 2022. Moving from IMS to Db2? Planet Mainframe, April 20, 2022. Options for Converting from COBOL to Java. CloudFrame Mainframe Modernization blog, April 19, 2022. Java and the zIIP: The 5 Major Benefits CloudFrame Mainframe Modernization blog, April 13, 2022. Protecting Data Using Masking and Obfuscation. Database Trends and Applications, April 7, 2022. Auditing Database Access and Change: A Necessity More Than a Nicety. Enterprise Tech Journal, 2022: Issue 1. Types of Processing That Can Utilize zIIPs & Why You Want to Use zIIPs. CloudFrame Mainframe Modernization blog, March 9, 2022. Understanding Database Isolation Levels. Database Trends and Applications, March 7, 2022. Digging Into the zIIP: What Does zIIP Eligible Mean? CloudFrame Mainframe Modernization blog, February 25, 2022. Understanding Mainframe Specialty Processors: zIIPs and More. CloudFrame Mainframe Modernization blog, February 15, 2022. Db2 User-Defined Functions (UDFs). Planet Mainframe, February 8, 2022. Use Cases for NoSQL and Multi-Model Database Systems. Database Trends and Applications, February 8, 2022. Things the Database Administrator Hears. TDAN, January 19, 2022. The Role of the DBA in Cybersecurity. Database Trends and Applications, January 3, 2022.

Articles Published in 2021

Db2 and Nulls are Much Ado About Nothing. TDAN, December 15, 2021. The Limitless Applications of Analytics. The Data Sourcebook (Big Data Quarterly), Winter 2021. Top 10 Steps to Building the Right Indexes. Planet Mainframe, December 13, 2021. Top 10 Rules of the Road for DBAs. Database Trends and Applications, December 8, 2021. DBA Success Requires More Than Tech Ability. TDAN, December 1, 2021. Managing Data That is Constantaly on the Move. Database Trends and Applications, November 1, 2021. Why DBAs Must Automate to Survive. Database Trends and Applications, October 5, 2021. Differences Between Data Lake and Data Warehouses. TDAN, September 15, 2021. Understanding Database Lock Timeouts and Deadlocks. Database Trends and Applications, September 1, 2021. None Shall Pass: Are Your Database Standards Too Rigid? TDAN, August 4, 2021. Phishing and Vishing for DBAs. Database Trends and Applications, August 2, 2021. SQL vs NoSQL vs NewSQL: How do they compare? TechTarget, July 30, 2021. Things the DBA Hears. Database Trends and Applications, July 8, 2021. What is Db2? TechTarget, June 22, 2021. What is data aggregation? TechTarget, June 19, 2021. Relational Still Matters. Database Trends and Applications, June 14, 2021. The Changing Database Landscape. TDAN, May 5, 2021. What Do You Mean by Database Performance? Database Trends and Applications, April 29, 2021. What is NoSQL? TechTarget, April 8, 2021. The Importance of Data Modeling in a Big Data World. Database Trends and Applications, April 6, 2021. Hybrid Cloud Strategy Requires On-Premises Consideration. IBM Servers & Storage, March 16, 2021. Data Gravity and Cloud Computing. TDAN, March 3, 2021. Achieving Value with Analytics Can be Challenging. Database Trends and Applications, March 2, 2021. What is data portability? TechTarget, February 26, 2021. What is a DBMS? TechTarget, February 23, 2021. None Shall Pass: Are Your Database Standards Too Rigid? Database Trends and Applications, February 10, 2021. Automating Database Administration is no Longer Optional. IDERA Blog, January 14, 2021. Cultural Issues are as Important as Technological. Database Trends and Applications, January 7, 2021. The Lifecycle of Data. TDAN, January 6, 2021. Budgeting and Staffing to Deal With the Data Deluge. Database Trends and Applications, January 6, 2021. .