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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

Sep

2021 Posted by James Cockayne

Ransomware and the DB2 Database – Part 1

What Would an Attack Look Like? By now I’m sure everyone has heard of the malicious practice known as ransomware attacks, where miscreants break into a corporate network and encrypt data before demanding huge sums of money to provide a

Sep

2021 Posted by James Cockayne

DB2 on Apple Silicon

Apple’s Macs have been a popular development platform for many years now, but IBM have never really committed to supporting DB2 servers on macOS it seems. There was a version of DB2 Express-c v9.7 made available some years ago, but

Sep

2021 Posted by James Cockayne

DevOps in 2021: what do professionals really think?

The recent DBmaestro Database DevOps Survey reveals a wealth of fascinating insights into the work of database professionals today. DBmaestro contacted almost 1000 DevOps and database professionals around the world, seeking their views on the current state of database DevOps

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