DB2 v9.5 fix pack 1

After a few false starts, I was able to install fix pack 1 for IBM's DB2 version 9.5 on one of our AIX systems.

Executing the db2level command yields the following:

• DB21085I Instance "db2****" uses "64" bits and DB2 code release "SQL09051" with level identifier "03020107".
  
• Informational tokens are "DB2 v9.5.0.1", "s080328", "U814639", and Fix Pack "1".
  
• Product is installed at "/opt/IBM/db2/V9.5".

VisualSVN Server 1.5.1

Yesterday I installed the VisualSVN server product onto a Windows Server 2003 system. Quoting from the VisualSVN Server site

VisualSVN Server is less than 6MB in size and can be downloaded and installed in a couple of minutes with just few clicks.

Now the fun starts ... migrating several large VSS (Visual Source Safe) repositories and training the developers to use new source code management tools.

IBM Data Studio Administration Console

Today at work I downloaded and installed IBM Data Studio Administration Console Version 1.1.2 . I should have read the release notes closer. The installation process was very easy. After launching the product, I soon discovered that I wasn't going to be successful. I was able to define connections to several different databases, but, I could not enable monitoring for any of my databases. Each one I tried was not at the correct fix pack level.

Here's the relevant documentation from the release notes that I overlooked.

• The server console supports health monitoring for the following data servers:
  • DB2^® Version 9.5 Fix Pack 1 for Linux, UNIX^®, and Windows

I now need to upgrade my databases to DB2 version 9.5 fix pack 1.

False Advertising?

Yesterday I noticed one of those freeway signs that the Arizona Department of Public Safety or Department of Transportation uses to alert motorists to various conditions.

Sign under test

I think the sign should really be something like this:

test

sign

Marcel Marceau

Marcel Marceau provided the world with many moments of silence during his long career.

Fans to pay respects at Paris funeral to French mime Marcel Marceau - International Herald Tribune

zunePhone

I wonder how much this gadget will cost?

http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/ip0wn/zunephone-shows-its-superiority-to-the-iphone-292990.php

Bad Neighbors

I read about a new site the other day. It lets you

• Locate Bad Neighbors Before You Move

Last double rainbow picture

Another double rainbow picture

Double rainbow

While surfing the 'Net one day, I found this quote and image

In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd

Miguel Cervantes
http://www.1-900-870-6235.com/eLearning/GreatIdeas/QuixoteMap.jpg

A new sport for Paris Hilton

While shopping at the local mall on Black Friday, I noticed a young man wearing a sweatshirt with

Varsity Hurling

on the front. I immediately thought that Paris Hilton would be well qualified to be on that team.

After reading/skimming some of the ideas presented in this article, Lessons from Project Management: 101 ways to organize your life, I decided that I should try harder to post more stuff to this blog.

Items #56 through #59 (in the Personal Organization section) suggests keeping a daily journal to jot down the day's hi- and lo-points. After a few days/entries I should pause to reflect upon what I had written and to rate my performance on the accomplishments or failures. I need to use a daily list of tasks/to do items. Once I complete a tasks, I should cross it off the list. With practice, I should improve the task completion percentage.

Thanksgiving -- a co-worker sent this to me ...

What we’re really talking about is a wonderful day set aside on the fourth Thursday of November when no one diets. I mean, why else would they call it Thanksgiving.

– Erma Bombeck

Photo Published Via Mobile Phone

Here is a photo I took last May during a trip to southern Utah and northern Arizona.

I sent it from a mobile phone using the new (to me) interface that Google recently made available.

think again!

After a three month absence, one of my favorite sites, think again! has returned. The site contains many

"seductive math problems for the modern mind"

.

The Astronomy of Halloween

I just discovered that tomorrow is one of four "cross-quarter" days on the solar calendar. Read more at this link, The Astronomy of Halloween

Halloween means more than just a day for costumes and candy corn. It's the halfway point between the autumnal equinox and winter solstice, the last of four "cross-quarter" days on the solar calendar.

I forgot why I forget ...

While browsing SlashDot, I found this quote from Steven Wright

"Right now I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the same time."

Motley Fool's CAPS

I tried the web site mention in this link, Motley Fool's CAPS software last night.

It did not take long to create my account on the site http://caps.fool.com/. I have been following a few different stocks (each pays a quarterly dividend) for several months.

I entered those stocks along with my best guess as to how they will perform for the next few weeks. I checked back today after the market closed to see that my net worth had increased today.

15 best practices for pureXML performance in DB2 9

Here is a new document written by Matthias Nicola about XML performance using IBM's DB2 version 9.

DB2 9 introduces pureXML support, which means that XML data is stored and queried in its inherent hierarchical format. To query XML data, DB2 offers two languages, SQL/XML and XQuery. Additionally, DB2 9 has sophisticated XML indexing capabilities and support for XML Schema validation. While most existing performance guidelines for DB2 also apply to XML data, this article provides additional XML-specific performance tips.