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James Cockayne

Principal Consultant

Favourite topics – Database security, performance & availability.

In over 15 years of experience as a DBA James has worked across government, retail, insurance and banking industries designing, building and maintaining databases that sit behind some of the UKs busiest online systems and the warehouses that support them.

Now working for UK based Triton Consulting, James focuses on extending the use of DevOps and cloud tooling and techniques with DB2 both on mainframe and LUW platforms.

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Jan

2020 Posted by James Cockayne

DevOps Engineers vs DBAs

Your DevOps project is going to fail ...and it could so easily have been saved. DevOps engineer - job adverts for these positions abound, demanding years of experience in ten or fifteen skills and languages. In the real world the

Oct

2019 Posted by James Cockayne

Rotterdam IDUG EMEA Day #4

By James Cockayne Thursday is the last day of IDUG EMEA 2019, and as ever I leave the conference sad that it has to end, but full of new knowledge and ideas that I’m excited to investigate for myself and

Aug

2019 Posted by James Cockayne

Implementing a Connect Procedure to Enhance Database Security

Introduction Introduced in DB2 v9.7 Fix Pack 3, the CONNECT_PROC database configuration parameter allows you to specify a stored procedure that will be executed when a user attempts to connect to the database. This functionality affords the DBA a wide

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