by XTIVIA | Mar 13, 2018 | Blog, Db2
What is Runstats? Runstats is a utility in Db2 that is used to collect statistics about the data in Db2 tables and indexes. This statistical information is critical to Db2 database performance. Runstats is executed on a table by table basis, so scripting it is quite...
by XTIVIA | Feb 1, 2018 | Blog, Db2
Personally, I am biased. As the team lead for Db2 services here at XTIVIA, I think Db2 and other enterprise database software have significant advantages over some of the open source or free options out there. Decades of time invested and spent solving the problems of...
by XTIVIA | Jan 16, 2018 | Blog, SQL Server
The most concerning issue with SQL Server merge replication is that it is not adequately designed to scale past a very small amount of subscribed instances. From a DBA’s perspective, we find merge replication the least desirable of the Microsoft replication...
by XTIVIA | Jan 9, 2018 | Blog, Db2
Sometimes when you’re looking at Db2 Queries, you may notice question marks in your queries, like this: SELECT partnum, sum(quantity) as QUANTITY FROM orderitems oi INNER JOIN orders o ON oi.orders_id = o.orders_id where o.field3 is null and o.timeplaced is not...
by XTIVIA | Dec 12, 2017 | Blog, SQL Server
The SSIS subsystem failed to load When this error is received the initial response is to look into SQL Server Integration Services, however this error can occur on systems even when no SSIS is installed. The subsystems are actually related to the SQL Server Agent....
by XTIVIA | Aug 11, 2017 | Blog, SQL Server
As a SQL Server DBA, there will be times when you will cross over into the system administrator realm of responsibilities or at a minimum telling them how to fix errors so your SQL environment runs better. WSFC (windows server failover cluster) is setup for AlwaysOn...
