At IDUG EMEA 2025 I presented Db2 External Tables and answered questions. Here I show how to combine an external table with a regular table in SQL statements.
Db2 features new vector capabilities that support use cases like in-database similarity search or RAG close to production data. Here are the setup instructions for my tests.
There is a new Db2 documentation page discussing security modes in Db2. Taking a look, I ended up with much more reading material which I share in this blog post.
Looking at the Db2 Warehouse Client Container in greater detail, I stumbled over Db2 tools like one to retrieve the database size, db_size. What is it and how do you actually get the Db2 database size?
How do you install the Db2 client, including the command line processor (CLP)? As follow-up to three ways to test Db2, here is my test of the Db2 Warehouse Client Container.
