Marketshare for DB2 has been growing steadily over the past five years and with the announcement of DB2 Universal Database V8 (T-Rex), the product has never had more momentum. "This is an excellent book . . . Mullins seems to have dumped his entire DB2 life experience into "DB2 Developer's Guide.""--Jonathon Sayles, "Relational Database Journal."

IBM and the rest of the computer industry are putting most of their DBMS development efforts into SQL. This reference provides the SQL/400 skills that a successful applications developer needs and shows how to create comprehensive, complex, and professional SQL/400 databases.

This cookbook has recipes written in a simple, easy to understand format with lots of screenshots and insightful tips and hints. If you are an IBM DB2 application developer who would like to exploit advanced features provided by DB2 to design and implement high quality applications, then this book is for you. This book assumes you have a basic understanding of the DB2 application development.

This is a guide designed to familiarize users with the DB2 standard while helping to optimize their use of the technology

Mastering material for dealing with DBA certification exams Key Features Prepare yourself for the IBM C2090-600 certification exam Cover over 50 Db2 procedures including database design, performance, and security Work through over 150 Q&As to gain confidence on each topic Book Description IBM Db2 is a relational database management system (RDBMS) that helps you store, analyze, and retrieve data efficiently. This comprehensive book is designed to help you master all aspects of IBM Db2 database administration and prepare you to take and pass IBM's Certification Exams C2090-600. Building on years of extensive experience, the authors take you through all areas covered by the test. The book delves deep into each certification topic: Db2 server management, physical design, business rules implementation, activity monitoring, utilities, high availability, and security. IBM Db2 11.1 Certification Guide provides you with more than 150 practice questions and answers, simulating real certification examination questions. Each chapter includes an extensive set of practice questions along with carefully explained answers. This book will not just prepare you for the C2090-600 exam but also help you troubleshoot day-to-day database administration challenges. What you will learn Configure and manage Db2 servers, instances, and databases Implement Db2 BLU Acceleration and a DB2 pureScale environment Create, manage, and alter Db2 database objects Use the partitioning capabilities available within Db2 Enforce constraint checking with the SET INTEGRITY command Utilize the Db2 problem determination (db2pd) and dsmtop tools Configure and manage HADR Understand how to encrypt data in transit and at rest Who this book is for The IBM Db2 11.1 Certification Guide is an excellent choice for database administrators, architects, and application developers who are keen to obtain certification in Db2. Basic understanding of Db2 is expected in order to get the most out of this guide.

User's guide to the IBM relational data base management system DB2 designed for the MVS operating system (Multiple Virtual Systems) and its companion products QMF and DXT - gives an overview incl. The Structural Query Language; covers system structure, data definition, data manipulation and information retrieval operations, data processing, the system catalog and view mechanism, data protection, application programming, storage structure, interactive interface, the query management facility, etc. Bibliography, flow charts.

Giving comprehensive, soup-to-nuts coverage of database administration, this guide is written from a platform-independent viewpoint, emphasizing best practices.