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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.

Recent Posts by James Cockayne

Jul

2020 Posted by James Cockayne

Integrating DB2 on Docker with Jupyter Notebooks

Jupyter notebooks are a popular way to query DB2 databases. The ease of use to set up a notebook and run complex queries with rich visualisations make them ideal for quickly demonstrating concepts and data trends. As the notebooks run

Jun

2020 Posted by James Cockayne

DB2 on Docker in Double Time

Recently I was running a workshop for some customers to demonstrate various features of DB2 on the Linux platform. Diligently I set up an environment in advance all ready to go the next day, but the gods of live demos

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

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