Consulting

Mullins Consulting, Inc. offers data management services and solutions that meet the demanding requirements of all size organizations. Let us help you with your strategic planning and technology evaluation. We also offer database and data warehouse design, performance audits and reviews, application performance tuning, SQL optimization, security and governance audits, DBA staff augmentation and analysis, and Db2 version migrations. We provide a wide variety of IT services and help our clients reduce IT costs through performance tuning engagements. Let Mullins Consutling, Inc. analyze your system to improve overall throughput and CPU consumption of the system.

Writing, Presentations, and Analysis

Mullins Consulting, Inc. offers technical writing services for all projects small and large. Mullins Consulting principal Craig S. Mullins has decades of experience writing about databases and other technologies. His articles and columns have been published in numerous tech publications and he is a regular blogger hosting two of his own blogs and supporting several others. Our successful writing projects include developing marketing materials and technical manuals for software vendors, reviewing software products, product market validations, competitive analyses, ghost writing technical articles and blog posts, developing in-depth technical white papers and ebooks, pricing research and evaluation, and producing informative, entertaining presentations. Craig is also available to deliver presentations at your event, on your behalf at industry events and conferences, or virtually via webcast. Craig also regularly participates in social media, predominantly Twitter and LinkedIn. Mullins Consulting also provides social media amplification programs to help boost your social media presence.

Education

Mullins Consulting offers educational services based on Craig’s three best-selling books: • Db2 Developer’s Guide Learn Db2 tips, techniques, & procedures you need to know in order to excel at administering and using Db2 on the mainframe. Eight hours of education based upon Db2 Developer’s Guide, the best- selling Db2 for z/OS book on the market. Can be delivered as a one day session or in 4 weekly 2 hour sessions. The training is delivered by Craig S. Mullins, the author of Db2 Developer’s Guide. Save time, improve your systems and applications. Learn techniques for creating, managing and accessing efficient Db2 databases. Topics include performance techniques for managing Db2 application, database and system performance, SQL coding and tuning techniques, guidance for database optimization and reorganization, coverage of buffer pool settings and parameters for performance, logical and physical database design recommendations for Db2, Db2 locking and techniques for coding to ensure accurate data while maintaining efficient DB2 applications and databases, and details on other important Db2 topics such as BIND, ZPARMs, utilities, etc. • A Guide to Db2 Performance for Application Developers Designed for application developers, A Guide to Db2 Performance for Application Developers will teach programmers how to write more efficient application code to access Db2 databases. Whether you write applications on the mainframe or distributed systems, this book will teach you practices, methods, and techniques for optimizing your SQL and applications as you build them. Write efficient applications and become your DBAs favorite developer by learning the techniques outlined in this course! The focus of the course is on programming, coding and developing efficient, well-performing Db2 pro- grams. The methods outlined in this course will help you improve the performance of your Db2 appli- cations. The material is written for all Db2 professionals, whether you are coding on z/OS (the mainframe) or on Linux, Unix or Windows (distributed systems). When there are pertinent differences between the platforms it is pointed out. It is important also to understand that the course book is not about performance monitoring and tuning. These activities are important, but are typically not the domain of application developers. Instead, the book offers guidance on application development procedures, techniques, and philosophies. The goal of the book is to educate developers on how to write good application code that lends itself to optimal performance. • Database Administration: The Complete Guide to DBA Practices and Procedures Learn all about database administration practices and procedures with an emphasis on managing databases as a management discipline. Taught by the man who wrote the book on the topic, Craig S. Mullins. This book has been used in many major universities to teach database administration to students. This is an in-depth, week-long course covering all aspects of database administration including: performance techniques for managing database application, database and system performance; Education on logical and physical database design including logical to physical translation, data modeling & normalization, data types, proper use of nulls, and more; Regulatory compliance guidelines in terms of its impact on DBA including coverage of sample regulations, auditing, archiving, security, and more; Database selection and installation guidance , including advice on creating database standards; Backup and recovery guidelines including information on properly preparing for disaster recovery; database development techniques including locking, transactions, ACID, erc.; coverage of data warehousing, design reviews, change management., designing and coding for availability, data integrity techniques, storage management, data movement, utilities, and more. All courses can be delivered in-person at your site or virtually.

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