The book is organized to follow the life cycle of an application system, beginning with the creation of objects and the design of indexes to lay the foundation for high performing systems. Programmer/analyst must develop high performing SQL to process data efficiently and have the knowledge base to tune SQL when required to meet response time requirements with minimal I/O and CPU time usage to minimize costs. The book concludes with the use of the utilities including enhancements in V6 and V7 for efficient maintenance of the data.
It provides indepth coverage of the design and development of application systems for performance using DB2. Many examples of high performing SQL are given including actual timings to indicate the order of magnitude improvements that can be achieved by following the guidelines discussed. Alternatives are presented and discussed along with the pros and cons so that you can make the proper decisions for your application system. The author provides many practical examples, hints, tips, and guidelines for the design and development of application systems.
This book is an excellent resource for experienced DB2 professionals as well as providing a concise and easy-to-read guide for those new to DB2. The following list of chapters give you an idea of the content.
1. Concepts and Components 2. Creating STOGROUPs, Databases, and Buffer Pools 3. Creating Tablespaces 4. Creating Tables and Views 5. Index Usage for Performance 6. Index Design for Performance 7. The Basics of SQL Data Manipulation 8. Concurrency Control 9. Program Development 10. Batch Processing 11.Triggering Actions in DB2 12. Stored Procedures 13. User-Defined Function 14. Program Preparation and Execution 15. Join Performance 16. Subselects and Table Expressions 17. Parallel Processing 18. Programming for Performance 19. The Optimizer 20. Explaining the Access Path Chosen by the Optimizer 21. Load and Check Data Utilities 22. Runstats and Reorganization 23. Copy, Quiesce, Report, Rebuild, Recover, & Rebuild
The fourth edition of the book is published in two volumes due to its size with the inclusion of V6 and V7 features and facilities. The table of contents is in Volume 1 and the index is in Volume 2. The two volumes cross reference each other. Please order both volumes which is the same price as the third edition in one volume.
It is the oldest and newest book on DB2. It is the oldest in that the original material was developed during ESP of V1.1 in 1983 and rewritten in each of the author's previous six books. It is the newest in that it is constantly updated for each release/version (plus current PTFs and APARs), has incorporated the input of over 16,000 course attendees in 27 countries on 6 continents, and has grown with DB2 to 1,415 pages in two volumes.
