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Mark Gillis

Principal Consultant

Favourite topics – Performance Tuning, BLU acceleration, Flying, Martial Arts & Cooking

Mark, our kilt-wearing, karate-kicking DB2 expert has been in IT for 30+years (started very young!) and using DB2 for 20+. He has worked on multi-terabyte international data warehouses and single-user application databases, and most enterprise solutions in between.

During his career Mark has adopted roles outside of the conventional DBA spectrum; such as designing reporting suites for Public Sector users using ETL and BI tools to integrate DB2 and other RDMS data. He has worked extensively in the UK, but also in Europe and Australia, in diverse industry sectors such as Banking, Retail, Insurance, Petro-Chemicals, Public Sector and Airlines.

Currently the focus of Mark’s work is in Cloud migration and support, hybrid database enablement and providing expertise in exploiting the features and functions of DB2 V11.1 and 11.5.

Recent Posts by Mark Gillis

Sep

2020 Posted by Mark Gillis

11.5.4 Nebula BLU Enhancements Part 2

In the first of these blogs (11-5-4-nebula-blu-enhancements) I was looking at one of the issues that has been around since columnar storage was introduced in v10.5: the lack of encoding for VarChar and other similar data types. This gap has

Sep

2020 Posted by Mark Gillis

11.5.4 Nebula BLU Enhancements

On 30th June, 2020 IBM officially launched the latest DB2 release, DB2 Nebula 11.5.4. The Triton midrange team has been exploring some of the exciting features that the new DB2 release has to offer. In this series we take a look at our

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Jan

2020 Posted by Mark Gillis

What is the Cloud?

What is the Cloud? The oft-repeated answer to this question is “it doesn’t exist; it’s just someone else’s computer”. While this is a nice succinct way of reminding people that the hardware to run our systems has to actually exist

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