We had  a great turnout yesterday for our webinar 6-Steps to Determining if DB2 Multi-Row Fetch is Right for Your Shop. Scott did an excellent job explaining how to identify the programs and cursors with the highest potential savings from MRF and how to calculate the overall potential CPU savings from implementing MRF. Our DB2 Tech panel also did a terrific job answering attendee questions during the Q&A session.

Watch the video replay of the presentation below. The actual presentation ends at about the 18:50 mark, the remainder of the video includes the detailed Q&A session with our DB2 tech panel. Enjoy!

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Watch the video below and learn how to:

• consolidate your test environment into a single database in a single subsystem,
• realize faster application time-to-completion and higher developer productivity,
• overcome typical challenges of parallel and single-threaded testing, and
• improve ROI on your existing test data management tools.

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The Slice tool can be installed in less than a day. Learn more about it here.

Craig gave another excellent presentation today on data security. If you missed it, you can watch the replay through GoToWebinar here: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/990275648

Alternatively, you can just watch the replay below. Enjoy!

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You can also download Craig’s presentation slide deck at: https://s3.amazonaws.com/SoftBase/Data-Security-in-the-Age-of-Regulatory-Compliance.pdf

Toward the end of the presentation, Craig explained the test data masking features of TestBase, our powerful test data management tool. Learn more about TestBase’s here or contact us to learn more.

Thanks again for another great presentation Craig!

Watch the 3 minute video to learn why:

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Implementing multi-row FETCH (MRF) in your DB2 applications can dramatically improve CPU consumption, by as much as 75% in open cursor FETCH processing. But the big challenges are:

• Costs of allocating time to manually recode
• Risk damaging functionality

Attach Facility mitigates these challenges by quickly and automatically implementing MRF in your batch DB2 applications – no recoding required.

Click here to use our free MRF ROI calculator to see how much you can save with Attach Facility!

Click here to contact us or call us at (800) 669-7076

Craig gave another great presentation yesterday on how to control your rolling four hour average (R4H). When you’re on variable workload licensing, understanding and controlling the R4H is critical to keeping your monthly bill in check. Craig discusses how you can directly restrict the R4H using soft capping and how techniques like tuning DB2 can reduce your overall CPU consumption – and subsequently your R4H. You can download Craig’s presentation slide deck here.

Register here to watch the replay and to join our mailing list – we’ll keep you in the loop about our upcoming DB2 webinars and our other DB2 resources!

Alternatively, if you don’t want to register, you can just watch the replay below. Enjoy!

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If you have any questions or comments, we’re all ears! Send us a message here.

We’ve seen a huge response to the Sheryl Larsen webinar we sponsored yesterday, titled “Find Lost Money in your SQL: Efficiently Finding and Fixing High Resource Consuming SQL”.

It was an incredibly informative and educational webinar, in which Sheryl showed us dozens of ways to reduce CPU usage. At the end of the webinar, we talked breifly about our new ROI calculator for multi-row FETCH, which estimates the amount of money your shop will save over a 5 year period by implementing multi-row FETCH manually, or by using SoftBase’s Attach Facility MRF feature which automatically retrofits your applications for multi-row FETCH. You can input a few variables, and we’ll generate a custom 5-year savings and ROI forecast, specific to your shop! It’s quick easy, and a little fun! Here are a few neat examples of what we’ll create for you (did I mention it’s FREE?)

Check it out here: https://www.softbase.com/mrf_roi.php

If you’ve come to watch Sheryl’s webinar replay, it’s available on GoToWebinar now at:

https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/565100185

You can download her presentation slide deck at:

https://s3.amazonaws.com/SoftBase/Efficiently+Finding+and+Fixing+High+Resource+Consuming+SQL+Softbase+Webinar.pdf

Or you can watch the presentation replay below.
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If you like the presentation or have any questions or comments, let us know at contactus@softbase.com. We’d love to hear from you!

We had a great turnout at the webinar – 581 database professionals dropped in to listen to Craig talk about implementing muti-row FETCH. He showed some VERY impressive savings. The video below is a replay, the entire video is an hour.

Download Craig’s presentation slide deck at: https://s3.amazonaws.com/SoftBase/Craig+Mullins+MRF+webinar+slide+deck.pdf

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The MRF feature of Attach Facility is a very hot topic right now – Craig talks about it in the webinar towards the end. It will allow you to implement multi-row FETCH without making any coding changes! Wouldn’t it be great to save 74% FETCH statement CPU by flipping a switch! Please contact us if you have any questions! Call us at (800) 669-7076 or go here. We’d love to hear from you!

Last September, SoftBase and IDUG sponsored a webinar featuring Craig Mullins discussing upgrading to DB2 version 10 and the impact on developers.  You can watch the video below!

Here’s the video replay of Craig’s presentation:

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Here’s Craig discussing how to best prepare your applications for the upgrade, and how to test them afterward:

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Contact us for more information about our products!

Here at SoftBase, we take pride in the quality of our company and products.

The video below shows several of us SoftBase employees talking about what quality means to us. Have a look!

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Last week, I walked around the office with camcorder in hand, asking my coworkers three questions:

1. What does customer service mean to you?
2. What does quality mean to you?
3. What is one of the funniest or most embarrassing moments you’ve had here at SoftBase?

The video below shows several of us SoftBase employees talking about what customer service means to us. At the end of the video, we asked our customers to fill out a satisfaction survey. As one of the most important elements to any company, we think everyone should know how important customer service is to us!

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Check back for the other videos soon – I think the funny/embarrassing moments video will be very entertaining!