Diary of a Database Geek

This is hopefully the first of a number of articles in a series I've entitled "Up and Running" which will describe my early experiences using some new (to me) piece of technology. The rise in popularity of Visual Studio Code ( https://code.visualstudio.com/ ) has been one of the biggest phenomena in the development community over the last few years. There are many reasons for it including - It is cross-platform, supporting Windows, Mac and Linux It is open source It has a large, and constantly growing, library of extensions available Up until this point, the tool of choice for developers working with the Db2 family of databases has been IBM Data Studio. This is built on the Eclipse framework ( https://www.eclipse.org ) which became popular for many of the same reasons that VS Code is now becoming popular. The Achilles heel of Eclipse has always been that it is very resource-intensive. The Eclipse Foundation also has a next-generation IDE - Eclipse Che ( https://www.eclips

A good number of years ago, I used to write a blog called "Diary of a Database Geek". It was mostly a place where I recorded items of information that I'd picked up that I thought I might find useful later on.  But life got busy and the blog fell by the wayside. I went searching for it on my old provider. It seems the blog entries are still there, but they are no longer accessible as a single blog but as single articles which appear to have been orphaned. Much of what I wrote then is probably irrelevant now - a lot happens in the database world in a short space of time. So I decided it would be better to start over again. So here I am. Mostly you'll find postings about databases, and particularly the Db2 family of databases with which I work all the time. Occasionally there will also be posts on a variety of random topics. Enjoy.