Biographical Sketch: Willie Favero is an IBM Senior Certified IT Software Specialist and DB2 SME for IBM’s Silicon Valley Lab Data Warehouse on System z Swat Team. He has over 30 years of experience working with databases with more than 25 years of that working with DB2. He is a sought after international speaker for conferences, user groups, and seminars, publishes articles, white papers, and Redbooks, and has one of the top technical blog on the Internet.