Here is your chance to increase exposure for DB2 to people that don't know anything about DB2 (but should). IT Toolbox hosts over 200 blogs and has over 150,000 subscribers all in the IT world (from CEOs to IT Architects to Application Developers to DBAs to Security admins,
etc). They are now holding their version of the Oscars called the IT Toolbox Readers Choice awards and there are 2 DB2 blogs nominated in 3 of the 5 categories. Here is your chance to make DB2 number 1 and expose that to 150,000 people, many of whom are potential members and part of IDUGs strategic initiatives (namely reaching out to more application
developers, managers and business intelligence architects).

Go to this website http://blogs.ittoolbox.com/awards/2006/ and cast your vote. You will find the following blogs nominated (voting closes on Monday) Best Blog: An Expert's Guide to DB2 Technology (http://blogs.ittoolbox.com/database/technology/) Best Technical Blog Getting the Most out of DB2 for z/OS (http://blogs.ittoolbox.com/database/db2zos/) Best New Blog: An Expert's Guide to DB2 Technology ( http://blogs.ittoolbox.com/database/technology/)

If you haven't seen these blogs before, take a look as you may get something out of them. In fact, here are some blog entries that specifically mention IDUG and IDUG events (you should all get a kick out of the first one as I ran a little contest and hopefully you all get the
answer right away :-)

Part 2 - How to easily populate a table with random data The latest IDUG Solutions Journal is now available for download IDUG Europe 2006 Call for Abstracts ending soon Monitoring Your Database with Just Scripts

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