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About the authors
Raul F. Chong is the DB2 on Campus program manager and a DB2 technical evangelist
based at the IBM Toronto Laboratory. His main responsibility is to grow the DB2
community around the world. Raul joined IBM in 1997 and has held numerous positions in
the company. As a DB2 consultant, Raul helped IBM business partners with migrations
from other relational database management systems to DB2, as well as with database
performance and application design issues. As a DB2 technical support specialist, Raul
helped resolve DB2 problems on the OS/390®, z/OS®, Linux®, UNIX® and Windows®
platforms. Raul has taught many DB2 workshops, has published numerous articles, and
has contributed to the DB2 Certification exam tutorials. Raul has summarized many of his
DB2 experiences through the years in his book Understanding DB2 - Learning Visually with
Examples 2nd Edition (ISBN-10: 0131580183) for which he is the lead author. He has also
co-authored the book DB2 SQL PL Essential Guide for DB2 UDB on Linux, UNIX,
Windows, i5/OS, and z/OS (ISBN 0131477005), and is the project lead and co-author of
many of the books in the DB2 on Campus book series.
Xiqiang Ji is a DB2 Advanced Support Engineer in IBM AP DB2 Level 2 support team in
Sydney. His main responsibility is to provide technical support for IBM Asia Pacific and
worldwide customers for solving various DB2 problems. During the past 5 years, He has
helped many DB2 customers across various industries solve many critical technical issues.
Before this, He had worked for 5 years as a technical consultant in IBM Software Group
supporting IBM Business Partners and Independent Software Vendors in developing DB2
applications and DB2 Business Intelligence solutions.
Priyanka Joshi is a software engineer with IBM India software labs working as a DB2
advanced technical support specialist. Her primary responsibility is to provide advanced
technical support on DB2 Linux®, UNIX® and Windows (LUW) platforms to IBM worldwide
customers. Priyanka joined IBM in 2006 and has since worked for numerous pre-sales and
post-sales support engagements for DB2 LUW. She specializes in DB2 - Common Client
Technologies and is a certified DB2 professional. Priyanka has been identified as the
Knowledge Champion for Asia-Pacific division as part of the Knowledge Centered support
initiative in IBM and also is a part of the prestigious Technical Leaders group in IBM,
responsible for providing smart solutions to IBM customers in collaboration with other IBM
product teams.
Vineet Mishra is a software engineer with the DB2 LUW team at the India Software Lab.
Vineet Joined IBM in 2007 and specializes in C and C++. His areas of interest are High
Availability and Disaster Recovery (HADR), stored procedures & UDFs, Embedded SQL
and Operating System Kernel. Vineet is a member of IBM Academic Initiative and IBM
University Relationship and actively works towards spreading DB2 (LUW) knowledge in
colleges. He frequently responds to queries in the DB2 forum.
Min Wei Yao is an application developer focusing on Business Intelligence. Min Wei joined
IBM in 2008 and has been working in the IBM Global Business Services area since then.
Besides working as a developer, Min Wei also likes to experiment with Linux, and DB2. Min