This series of eight free tutorials is designed to help you prepare for the IBM Certified System Administrator: IBM Informix Dynamic Server 11 certification exam (Exam 918). These tutorials provide a solid base for each section of the exam. However, you should not rely on these tutorials as your only preparation for the exam more>

Tune IBM Informix Dynamic Server (IDS) and its different subsystems for optimum performance. After a brief overview, follow along with examples on how to look at the database server and its subsystems. The fourth in a series of eight tutorials, use this tutorial to help prepare for the IDS 11 exam 918. more>

Configure and manage all forms of replication options available with IBM Informix Dynamic Server (IDS) 11. The seventh in a series of eight tutorials, use this tutorial to help prepare for the IDS 11 exam 918. more>

IBM Informix Dynamic Server, Version 11 (IDS 11) has new SQL features. Learn how to use SQL to perform administrative tasks, improve query performance, manage data security, and manipulate data. The eighth in a series of eight tutorials, use this tutorial to help prepare for the IDS 11 exam 918 more>

Explore the topic of troubleshooting for IBM Informix Dynamic Server. After a brief overview, learn about the various tools that are available for troubleshooting, and then look at examples of how to examine the database server to solve problems. The third in a series of eight tutorials, use this tutorial to help prepare for the IDS 11 exam 918 more>

Gain an understanding of the operating modes for IBM Informix Dynamic Server 11.10 (IDS 11). The fifth in a series of eight tutorials, use this tutorial to help prepare for the IDS 11 exam 918 more>

Part 6 of the System Administration Certification exam 918 series explores IBM IDS database backup and restore concepts and strategies, as well as utilities and commands for managing your database backup and restore processes more>

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Do you love your Mac? And, do you want Enterprise level computing capabilities? Well, now you can have the best of both worlds. The Informix Dynamic Server (IDS) from IBM is now available for Mac OS X to allow for low administration costs, large volume transaction processing, and high availability. Watch this webcast to find out what application development options are available and to get advice on creating low administration and low cost applications on your Mac OS X.

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Do your applications have high-volume real-time transactions? Do you support hundreds or thousands of applications or users? This free webcast will discuss application design for handling large workloads and utilizing IBM Informix Dynamic Server (IDS) to simplify long term management and deployment. See why IBM customers in all industries including telco, gaming, financial and hospitality are using IDS. This powerful software will help with optimizing application performance and dynamically performing regular administration tasks on-the-fly.

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Informix Dynamic Server (IDS) Express Edition offers outstanding online transaction processing (OLTP) database performance, while helping to simplify and automate many of the tasks associated with deploying databases for small business applications. IDS 11 further extends the ease of management and applications integration with the Admin API and Scheduler, high availability with Continuous Log Restore for backup server recovery in case of a primary server failure, and column level encryption to protect personal and company private data. more>