(.PDF by Joel Goldstein – requires the free Adobe Acrobat Reader) – Simply stated, DB2 response time is never fast enough unless it’s sub-second. IBM has said that productivity improves by 100% when improving response time from 2 seconds to less than one second. Joel’s presentation reviews what yo
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