THINGS I WISH THEY HAD TOLD ME ABOUT DB2 EIGHT YEARS AGO
This presentation will cover real world application tuning techniques, coding tips, SQL oddities and other work and money savers taken from Bonnie Bakers extremely popular Things I wish Someone Had Told Me series at the DB2 Technical Conferences.

DB2/6000 VERSION 2 - A REVIEW
For companies that have made a large investment in DB2/MVS this newcomer from IBM has a lot to offer, whether you want to grow existing applications out to a distributed environment, or rightsize to a UNIX, OS/2 or Windows NT platform. This presentation will cover an evaluation of DB2/6000 version 2 against Sybase and Oracle.

DISTRIBUTED RELATIONAL DATABASE ARCHITECTURE (DRDA) - A REVIEW
This presentation will discuss an integrated approach to DRDA, including: the general requirements for an effective Client/Server Architecture; a general description of the participants in DRDA; a review of the basic building blocks; a flow trace of a user request; the different levels of DRDA; DRDA performance and security issues with an emphasis on DB2 for MVS.

DB2 FOR WINDOWS NT TECHNICAL OVERVIEW
This presentation will give an overview of the features of the DB2 for Windows NT product. The database provides the same functions as DB2 Version 2 for OS/2 and UNIX, in addition, it integrates with the Windows NT operating system for the best performance results.

DB2 V4.1 DATA SHARING TECHNICAL OVERVIEW
DB2 V4 data sharing provides concurrent read/write access to DB2 data for up to 32 DB2s in a S/390 Parallel Sysplex. It enables increased capacity availability and flexibility. This presentation will discuss V4 design features such as locking and buffer coherency that makes this a highly scaleable parallel implementation.