Hey DB2’ers,

I had a busy week last week speaking at the Central Canadian DB2 Users Group in Toronto and visiting with customers. The best part of this job is that I have the opportunity to speak to many people in the DB2 community and get to hear what they are doing with DB2 and what their needs are from a tool perspective.

It’s interesting to hear that although companies are using DB2 for a variety of applications the work of the DBA stays pretty consistent. There is always a need to be able to quickly and accurately make changes to objects and put all dependencies back as they were. The other common thread is they need a solid SQL tuning tool.

Developers like to throw SQL together and not really test. This was the subject of my blog a few weeks ago. I spent all day Friday onsite with one of our largest customers discussing what they do on a day-to-day basis and what they need their tools to do. They confirmed the need for a solid object management and SQL tuning product. We have some exciting new features planed for the upcoming release of Toad^® over the next few months.

What I would like is to hear from you on what your day to day job entails, and what type of functionality would be most useful to you. I am looking forward to your feedback.