You will soon be able to utilize Visual Studio Team System for Database Professionals for DB2. See Gert’s blog here. I really like DataDude and hope this gives it some more exposure. However the biggest hurdle seems to be it’s distribution. It’s only available through Team System Suite, this is a huge frustration in trying [...]
About a month ago a developer colleague and I were discussing the database professional role and he started to list the requirements he felt were appropriate for a senior .NET developer regarding database knowledge, which include 3NF, write stored procedures, views, UDF’s, etc. As a result I authored an internal paper and distributed it. Today [...]