Monday, February 24, 2025

Db2 catalog: Updated documentation links to database metadata

New Db2 metadata created
In 2017 I wrote the post "Db2 Catalog - A guided tour", a title which I also use for some of my talks at user group meetings and conferences. It contains some now outdated links to the Db2 documentation. Time for an update, so that I can find that important information quicker again. And maybe you too...

Thursday, February 6, 2025

Db2: Loading and unloading of data on remote clients with external tables

Unload Db2 data to remote client
Today, I am going to take a look at another variation of external tables. They can be used to load data from a remote Db2 client or unload data to that client - directly from or into a file. I tested it with the Db2 CLP and with a Python script and it was quite easy.