Training Courses

The courses listed below are available as on-site courses at the client's site. If you do not see what you want, send us an email. We can develop a course to meet your requirements. Some of these courses are also offered as public courses by Verhoef Training in the UK and in the USA. Some of the courses are available as web-based training - contact us for more details.

All our courses are developed and presented by Mike Turner. Mike has more than 35 years experience of working with mainframe database management systems, the last 32 years in the IBM mainframe world. He has studied DB2 and its System/R prototype since 1979. Mike is co-author of the IBM Redbooks 'DB2 for z/OS and OS/390 Version 7 Performance Topics' and 'DB2 9 for z/OS: New Tools for Query Optimization'.

To go to courses on a specific topic, select from the links below:

DB2 UDB for z/OS Training Courses:

All courses are at DB2 UDB for z/OS Version 8 unless otherwise indicated. Those marked with  are at Version 9.

DB2 Version 8 Update	Last Update: 31 August 2004
DB2 Version 8 Update for Developers	Last Update: 31 August 2004
DB2 Application Performance Tuning	Last Update: 04 May 2006
DB2 Basic Application Performance	Last Update: 20 October 2006
DB2 Advanced Application Performance	Last Update: 04 May 2006
DB2 System Performance Tuning	Last Update: 16 January 2006
DB2 Application Data Recovery	Last Update: 10 February 2005
DB2 System and Disaster Recovery   Updated!	Last Update: 04 August 2010
DB2 Data Sharing Overview	Last Update: 04 May 2006
DB2 Data Sharing Implementation	Last Update: 12 July 2004
DB2 Data Sharing Recovery and Restart	Last Update: 15 July 2008
DB2 Data Sharing Performance Tuning	Last Update: 19 December 2006
DB2 System and Data Sharing Performance	Last Update: 20 December 2006
DB2 Database Administration	Last Update: 14 June 2006
DB2 for z/OS and OS/390 Overview	Last Update: 04 September 2002
DB2 for z/OS SQL Programming	Last Update: 12 January 2003
DB2 for Application Developers	Last Update: 25 February 2004
DB2 for z/OS Stored Procedures Workshop	Last Update: 06 November 2003
DB2 for Application Support	Last Update: 09 September 2002
DB2 for Application Testers	Last Update: 01 December 2003
DB2 for Operations	Last Update: 03 September 2002
DB2 Version 7 Update	Last Update: 22 October 2002
DB2 Version 7 Update for Developers	Last Update: 22 October 2002

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