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1998-1999 Seminar Series

A Whirlwind Tour of the DB2 Universal Database (with an emphasis on performance)

Berni Schiefer
DB2 Universal Database Performance
IBM Canada Laboratory

DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
DATE: Monday November 9, 1998
TIME: 3:30 pm
PLACE: 1C70 Engineering
*** Everyone is welcome ***

Abstract

This talk will briefly describe DB2 and its companion products to provide an overview of the scope of the database development work at IBM. We'll then drive deeper into the database engine and look at the complexity of some of the large systems we work with and the problems we are working on. We'll conclude with some very recent work we've completed using the Virtual Interface (VI) Architecture to cluster standard high volume Intel SMP servers into powerful MPP systems.

About the speaker...
Berni Schiefer is manager of the DB2 Universal Database performance team within IBM. He graduated from the U. of S. with a B.Sc in Computer Science in 1985 and joined IBM. Since then he has worked on a wide range of database development projects, including SQL/DS and the Starburst experimental relational database at the IBM Almaden Research Lab, prior to working on DB2.

Since 1990, he has been working on introducing advanced technology into DB2 UDB with particular emphasis on performance, performance tuning, advanced SQL, and complex query optimization.

He can be reached at schiefer@ca.ibm.com. For further information check the following URLs:

All students registered in the CMPT990 Seminar Series should attend.





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