Craig Mullins is president & principal consultant of Mullins Consulting, Inc. and an in-demand analyst, author and speaker. He has over three decades of experience in all facets of database systems development including creating and teaching database classes, systems analysis and design, data analysis, database administration, performance management, and data modeling.Db2 and Database Expertise
Craig has worked with Db2 on the mainframe since Version 1 and has experience working with other database technologies including IMS. IBM has appointed Craig as a Gold Consultant for Db2 and as an IBM Champion for Data & AI.
Craig was named as one of the Top 200 Thought Leaders in Big Data & Analytics by AnalyticsWeek. Big Data Made Simple also named Craig one of their 200 Big Data thought leaders. Craig has also been named an expert in the “Who’s Who in Cybersecuirty” listing published by Onalytica. Red Gate appointed Craig as one of the 100 Most influential in the database community. And Planet Mainframe named Craig as one of the Most InfluentialMainframers for 2024.
Craig is a prolific writer, having authored articles for popular journals and web sites including Database Trends and Applications, TDAN, TechTarget, Big Data Quarterly, and more.
Craig is the author of multiple best-selling books on Db2, database administration, and IBM Z mainframe technologies:
- DB2 Developer's Guide, published by IBM Press, delivers over 1600 pages of in-depth technical information on Db2 for z/OS. The best selling Db2 book over 20 years and 6 editions.
- Database Administration: The Complete Guide to DBA Practices and Procedures, published by Addison Wesley, offers the industry's only comprehensive guide to heterogeneous database administration.
- Craig’s latest Db2 book, A Guide to Db2 Application Performance for Developers, provides guidance and direction to Db2 application developers and programmers on how to write efficient, well-performing programs. If you write code and access data in a Db2 database, then this book is for you.
- And Craig’s most recent database book, Optimizing Database Performance, offers guidance on the techniques and issues involved in creating and maintaining optimal database systems and the applications that access them (regardless of the DBMS you use).
- Craig's most recently published book, IBM Mainframe Specialty Processors: Understanding zIIPs, Licensing, and Cost Savings on the IBM System z, focuses on clarifying and guiding mainframe professionals on how to best use and benefit from IBM Z specialty processors.
Craig is also a frequent speaker at industry events, having delivered talks on database issues to thousands of IT and business professionals at conferences such as IDUG Db2 Tech Conference, IBM Think, SHARE, SSWUG, Data Summit, DAMA Symposium, PASS Data Community Summit, and Oracle World, as well as at many regional user groups all over the world.