Db2: SQL-based explain and printed acccess plan

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This Friday in Munich, I gave a talk about the new native JSON functions in Db2 at the German Db2 user group (DeDUG) meeting. To speed up queries and to enforce uniqueness or some structural rules, Db2 functional indexes can be used with the new JSON_VALUE. As usual for some prototyping, I utilized a Jupyter Notebook for my presentation. Now, how to demonstrate that indexes are really used? Show the access plan! But how in a notebook?

Updated tutorial: Database-driven chatbot

If you want to build a chatbot that gets its content from a database, there is a good news. The existing tutorial “Build a database-driven Slackbot” was just updated to adapt to latest features of IBM Watson Assistant. First, define a skill that reaches out to a database service like Db2. Thereafter, use the built-in integrations to easily tie in the assistant with Slack, Facebook Messenger, embed the chatbot into your own application or use the WordPress plugin.

Architecture of database-driven chatbot