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Publish Date
09 August 2007
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(based on 2 reviews)
Author(s)
- Whei-Jen Chen
- An Na Choi
- Marina Greenstein
- Scott J Martin
- Fraser McArthur
- Carlos Eduardo Abramo Pinto
- Arthur V Sammartino
- Nora Sokolof
Whei-Jen Chen is a Project Leader at the International Technical Support Organization, San Jose Center. She has extensive experience in application development, database design and modeling, and DB2 system administration. Whei-Jen is an IBM Certified Solutions Expert in Database Administration and Application Development, as well as an IBM Certified IT Specialist.
An Na Choi is a Field Technical Sales Specialist with the Information Management department of SWG in South Korea. After graduating from the university, she worked for a local IT company for two years developing an encyclopedia application. An Na has supported DB2 and Informix products including DB2 Database server, Tools, WebSphere Information Integrator and Informix Dynamic Server, and DB2 for SAP for eight years. As a presales engineer, An Na has performed benchmark tests and participated in Oracle to DB2 conversion projects. She has extensive experience in deploying IBM Information Management solutions to many customers with DB2, Informix Dynamic Server, DB2 on SAP, WSII and many other tools.
Marina Greenstein is a Senior Certified Consulting IT Software Specialist with the IBM Database Migration Team. She is an IBM Certified Solutions Expert who joined IBM in 1995 with experience in database application architecture and development. During the 11 years Marina has been with the DB2 Migration Team, she has assisted customers in their migrations from Microsoft SQL Server, Sybase, or Oracle databases to DB2. She has presented migration methodology at numerous DB2 technical conferences and at SHARE. She is also the author of multiple articles and a white paper about DB2 migration.
Scott J Martin is a DB2 Technology Consultant with the IBM Innovation Center (IIC) for Business Partners in Waltham, MA, which is part of IBM Developer Relations. He has 25 years of IT experience with IBM, and is a certified Advanced Database Administrator for DB2 LUW V8.1, a certified Application Developer for the UDB Family, and a certified Database Administrator for DB2 for z/OS. For the past four years with the IIC, Scott has helped business partners convert their applications from Oracle, SQL Server, and MySQL to DB2 for LUW and DB2 for z/OS. In this role, Scott has also managed DB2 performance enablements and performed a variety of architecture and database administration tasks supporting business partners. Prior to this, he spent 13 years with IBM Global Services performing Application Development, Database Administration, and Database Tuning for DB2 mainframe environments.
Fraser McArthur is a DB2 Technical Consultant with the Information Management Partner Enablement organization at the IBM Toronto Lab, where he has worked for the last seven years. He focuses on assisting IBM Data Services Business Partners, performing application migrations and performance tuning, which can involve anything from low-level and detailed application development and troubleshooting to high-level database design and administration. Recently, his focus has been on DB2 pureXML. Fraser also conducts DB2 technical workshops and publishes the occasional article to IBM developerWorks for the DB2 community.
Carlos Eduardo Abramo Pinto is an IT Specialist for Database Administration in IBM Global Services in Brazil, supporting IBM local and international customers. He has more than 11 years of IT experience in a wide range of client and server platforms, including technical and system support of the Windows operating system, Oracle, DB2, and Microsoft SQL Server databases in UNIX, Linux and Windows platforms. He is also specialized in Oracle Real Application Clusters implementation and support. Carlos is an IBM DB2 Certified Database Administrator on DB2 UDB V8.1 for Linux, UNIX and Windows, an Oracle Certified Professional on Oracle 8i, 9i and 10g databases, a Microsoft Certified IT Professional Database Administrator and Database Developer for Microsoft SQL Server 2005, a Microsoft Certified Database Administrator for Microsoft SQL Server 7 and 2000, and a Microsoft Certified System Engineer on Windows NT 4 and 2000.
Arthur V Sammartino is a certified consulting I/T specialist with the IBM Database Migration Team (also known as SMPO). He is responsible for assisting customers who are considering a database migration from competitive RDBMS products (Oracle, Sybase, or Microsoft SQL Server) to IBM DB2 residing on Linux, UNIX, Windows, or the z/OS platforms. In addition to his conversion responsibilities, his experience includes supporting clients with application development environment and setup concerns, as well as migration tool installation and education. Art is certified as both an IBM Database Administrator and an IBM Application Developer.
Nora Sokolof is a Certified Consulting Brand Sales IT Specialist with the IBM DB2 Migration Team (also known as the SMPO). She holds a Master of Science degree in Software Engineering from Pace University. She has been with IBM for more than 20 years, and has held positions as a DB2, Informix, Oracle and PeopleSoft development DBA. She also designed the first IBM flexible benefits enrollment database in 1993. Nora is an IBM Certified Database Administrator. She is also the author of several white papers including "Transitioning from IBM Informix to DB2 - Database Comparisons and Migration Topics", and has co-authored the following IBM Redbooks publications: Planning for a Migration of PeopleSoft 7.5 from Oracle/UNIX to DB2 for OS/390, Database Transition: Informix Dynamic Server to DB2 Universal Database, and Database Strategies: Using XPS and DB2 Universal Database.
ISBN
0738489271
IBM Form Number
SG24-7048-01