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Many hints and tips on use SQL with DB2 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows, complete with loads of example SQL. - David Sky

There are many sources that offer technical guidance for database administration, but sometimes the non-technical aspects of DBA are just as challenging. DBAs should be armed with a proper attitude as well as sufficient fortitude and knowledge before attempting to practice database administration. With that in mind, this month’s column will offer some “life rules” to guide DBAs as they attempt to keep their companies databases humming along. - David Sky

With new data from the Keck telescopes, Andrea Ghez shows how state-of-the-art adaptive optics are helping astronomers understand our universe's most mysterious objects: black holes. She shares evidence that a supermassive black hole may be lurking at the center of the Milky Way. - David Sky

Ralph Whitbeck and Elijah Manor recorded the first of many weekly episodes that aim to interview key members of the jQuery Community while bringing you the top news from the past week. This first episode includes a conversation with John Resig. IMG:http://blog.jquery.com/wp-cont... - David Sky

In The Laws of Disruption, Larry Downes, author of the best-selling Unleashing the Killer App, provides an invaluable guide for these confusing times, exploring nine critical areas in which technology is dramatically rewriting the rules of business and life. For business owners and managers, it will help you understand not only how to avoid being blindsided by customer rebellion, but also how to benefit from it. The book will,also, teach lawyers, judges, and regulators when to keep their hands off the system and it will show consumers the consequences of their digital actions. IMG:http://assets.conversationsnet... - David Sky

Guest: Erich Joachimsthaler, CEO, Vivaldi Partners, discusses the need to integrate the skills, organization, and leadership for innovation. - David Sky

Guest: Andrew McAfee, principal research scientist at MIT's Center for Digital Business and author of Enterprise 2.0: New Collaborative Tools for Your Organization's Toughest Challenges. From http://harvardbusiness.org/product... "Web 2.0" is the portion of the Internet that's interactively produced by many people; it includes Wikipedia, Facebook, Twitter, Delicious, and prediction markets. In just a few years, Web 2.0 communities have demonstrated astonishing levels of innovation, knowledge accumulation, collaboration, and collective intelligence. Now, leading organizations are bringing the Web's novel tools and philosophies inside, creating Enterprise 2.0. In this book, Andrew McAfee shows how they're doing this..." IMG:http://harvardbusiness.org/product... - David Sky

Links to articles describing non-relational database systems from Amazon, Google and countless others. Also ideas like "eventual consistency" are covered. - David Sky

At TEDIndia, Pranav Mistry demos several tools that help the physical world interact with the world of data -- including a deep look at his SixthSense device and a new, paradigm-shifting paper "laptop." In an onstage Q&A, Mistry says he'll open-source the software behind SixthSense, to open its possibilities to all. - David Sky

eXist-db is an open source database management system built using XML technology. It stores XML data according to the XML data model and features efficient, index-based XQuery processing. - David Sky

Wolfgang Meier discusses eXist-db, the Open Source Native XML database featuring index-based XPath query processing and more. - David Sky

A robotic hand has been successfully connected to an amputee, allowing him to feel sensations in the artificial limb and control it with his thoughts, a group of European scientists said Wednesday. IMG:http://news.google.ca/news... - David Sky

Resources, links, and interesting videos on IBM's take on creating a better world through software. IMG:http://asmarterplanet.com/wp-cont... - David Sky

An interview with Knowledge@Wharton, Matwyshyn is joined by two of the book's contributors, Diana Slaughter-Defoe, professor of urban education at University of Pennsylvania, and Cem Paya, a data security expert at Google, who discuss the major risk management gaps that are leaving valuable data assets unprotected not only in the office, but also at home, while also sharing a number of measures that everyone -- from parents to CEOs -- can take to avoid Internet security disasters. For more information on their book, 'Harboring Data: Information Security, Law and the Corporation' see http://www.sup.org/book... IMG:http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/images... - David Sky

An interview with Knowledge@Wharton, Matwyshyn is joined by two of the book's contributors, Diana Slaughter-Defoe, professor of urban education at University of Pennsylvania, and Cem Paya, a data security expert at Google, who discuss the major risk management gaps that are leaving valuable data assets unprotected not only in the office, but also at home, while also sharing a number of... more... - David Sky

This visualization, called code_swarm, shows the history of commits in a software project. A commit happens when a developer makes changes to the code or documents and transfers them into the central project repository. Both developers and files are represented as moving elements. When a developer commits a file, it lights up and flies towards that developer. Files are colored according to their purpose, such as whether they are source code or a document. If files or developers have not been active for a while, they will fade away. A histogram at the bottom keeps a reminder of what has come before. - David Sky

At War with the Weather analyzes current thinking about catastrophes, risk management and financial recovery, and then proposes new, long-term solutions for reducing loss and providing the necessary financial protection against future disasters. As one of the authors notes, "The question you have to ask yourself before reading the book is: How much are you willing to lose when the next catastrophe strikes?" IMG:http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/images... - David Sky

Gource - Software Version Control Visualization [code.google.com] is a tool that represents the evolution over time of a software's version control. The file structure behind common software projects are displayed as an animated tree using a force-directed layout. The root directory of the project at its center. Directories appear as branches with files as leaves. The names of individual developers can be seen working on the tree with the exact times they contributed to the project. - David Sky

Dr. Moria Gunn sits down with Savara Pharmaceuticals chair, Rob Neville to discuss their innovative way of using nano technology to treat damaged lungs. In many cases the results can be delivered to patients using existing technology. The importance of water on the moon is also discussed. IMG:http://assets.conversationsnet... - David Sky

A totally JavaScript web-based Pac-Man style arcade game - try it out then take a look at the source to get a sense of what can be done directly in the browser. IMG:http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_... - David Sky

Hans Rosling was a young guest student in India when he first realized that Asia had all the capacities to reclaim its place as the world's dominant economic force. At TEDIndia, he graphs global economic growth since 1858 and predicts the exact date that India and China will outstrip the US. - David Sky

Tom Wujec reaches back to one of our earliest but most ingenious devices -- the astrolabe. With thousands of uses, from telling time to mapping the night sky, this old tech reminds us that the ancient can be as brilliant as the brand-new. See also his personal web page at: http://www.tomwujec.com/ IMG:http://images.ted.com/images... - David Sky

Steve Mann is a Canadian professor teaching at the University of Toronto interests from wearable computers and cyborgs, to computer algorithm's associated with cameras, to musical instruments, to privacy rights. - David Sky

A week of stories about the melding of humans and computers including the history, science, technology now available, and the possible future. IMG:http://cache.gizmodo.com/assets... - David Sky

A week of stories about the melding of humans and computers including the history, science, technology now available, and the possible future. IMG:http://cache.gizmodo.com/assets... - David Sky

Guest Umair Haque, director of the Havas Media Lab and author of the Edge Economy blog on at http://blogs.harvardbusiness.org/haque... discusses the ways media, newspapers in particular, can re-invent themselves by providing a focused voice on the news they cover. He makes the distinction between soda and wine - newspapers used to be all the same, offering the equivalent of pop, but in the future readers (and advertisers) will demand more focused publications, like the huge range of wine that is available. - David Sky

Learn about the design of social software for the enterprise. Joining Karel on this episode are Ethan Perry (Product Designer and UX Team Lead, IBM Lotus Connections) and Marty Moore (Product Designer, IBM Lotus Connections) discussing the design of IBM Lotus Connections 2.5. For more details, see http://www-01.ibm.com/softwar... IMG:http://www-01.ibm.com/softwar... - David Sky

Guest: Roger Martin, dean of the Rotman School of Management at the U. of T. and author of The Design of Business: Why Design Thinking is the Next Competitive Advantage explains the need for a melding of traditional analytic thinking and the traditional creative process. Each side needs to understand and respect the other, and only by working together can innovation and true progress occur. IMG:http://harvardbusiness.org/product... - David Sky

An IBM Redbook that dscribes using IBM DB2 9 with server virtualization, including: - A general overview of virtualization describing specific server virtualization technologies to highlight how the server virtualization technologies have been implemented. - Details on the setup, configuration, and managing of DB2 with three leading server virtualization technologies: IBM Power Systems with PowerVM, VMware, and Hyper-V -The DB2 features and functions that can take advantage of using server virtualization. -A list of best practices from the various tests performed while using these virtualization technologies. - David Sky

BM researcher Kavitha Srinivas and her team have developed an allusive search system that uses reasoning instead of simple word matches to aggregate refined search data. This technology is playing an important role in clinical trials – and is slated for use in other data-heavy industries, such as financial services. In this episode of Computer Science Spotlight, Dr. Srinivas gives an overview of her team's semantic search work at IBM. More details at http://domino.research.ibm.com/comm... - David Sky

Programming languages are enduring animals. The best ones instruct computers to do complex computations until another language comes along that can handle more complexity, greater concurrency. IBM computer scientist Vijay Saraswat and colleagues Kemel Ebcioglu and Vivek Sarkar have been developing a programming language called x10 that is slated to work on a number of super-fast hardware architectures, including the IBM Power7 chip. For more details see http://x10-lang.org/ IMG:http://media.xircles.codehaus.org/_projec... - David Sky

A discussion with Jono Bacon, community manager for Ubuntu about their free, community developed, Debian-based Linux operating system. - David Sky