DB2 for Solaris: The Official Guide - Softcover

Bauch, Tom; Wilding, Mark

9780130463807: DB2 for Solaris: The Official Guide

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0130463809 ISBN 13: 9780130463807

Publisher: Prentice Hall, 2003

-- The insider's guide to table structures, cluster configuration, and other optimization opportunities.-- Provides best practices techniques for installing, configuring, and optimizing DB2 in the Solaris Operating Environment.-- Covers the new Solaris Operating Environment security features to make your databases even more secure!-- Part of the IBM Press DB2 Series.This is the only IBM insider's reference and guidebook for making the most of DB2 in Solaris enterprise environments. Coverage includes: integrating Solaris and DB2 to build more secure database applications; working with DB2's management utilities in a Solaris environment; client/server communications under Solaris; special issues and opportunities associated with running DB2 Universal Database Enterprise Edition under Solaris, and much more! The authors explain configuring Solaris and DB2 failover support and provide expert tips and techniques for DB2/Solaris performance monitoring, optimization, and troubleshooting. If you manage or develop for DB2 on Solaris, this book is critical to your success -- and you can't find it anywhere else!

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The definitive guide to DB2 Version 8 for Solaris -- straight from IBM's experts
Covers planning, installation, configuration, administration, and optimization
Shows how to leverage both Solaris and DB2 features to maximize performance and scalability
Fully updated for the newest DB2 Universal Database V8 tools, features, and enhancements

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IBM's DB2 Universal Database Version 8 for Solaris has been carefully engineered to deliver all of the immense power, flexibility, and scalability of DB2, while taking full advantage of the capabilities of Sun's Solaris operating system. Now, direct from IBM", there's a definitive guide to installing, running, and optimizing the latest versions of DB2 on the Solaris platform.

DB2 for Solaris: The Official Guide offers systematic and authoritative guidance on every key decision and challenge you'll face, from choosing the right DB2 edition to monitoring and optimizing performance, implementing clustering to managing backup and recovery.

This book presents never-before-published insights from IBM's DB2 for Solaris support experts, as well as the leader of IBM's DB2 Solaris port. You'll find best practices, techniques, tips, guidelines, and rules of thumb for all this, and more:

Sum

Installing DB2 on Solaris
Working with disks, file systems, memory, and CPUs
Using the graphical administration and monitoring tools of DB2
Optimizing database and Solaris operating system performance
Implementing clusters with Veritas Cluster Server and Sun Cluster
Managing client/server communications and TCP/IP networking
Leveraging lightweight OS semaphores, kernelized asynchronous I/O, SMP processor sets, intimate shared memory, and other advanced Solaris features
Utilizing inter-partition parallelism with DB2 Universal Database Enterprise Server Edition's Data Partitioning feature

About the Author:

TOM BAUCH is a Senior Certified IT Specialist and Technical Lead of the DB2 Ranger Team at IBM Software Group. He has been with the Ranger Team supporting DB2 on Solaris since 1998, and prior to that was a DB2 instructor for IBM. MARK WILDING, Advisory Software Developer at the IBM Toronto Lab, is currently the architect for DB2 Serviceability. Bauch and Wilding co-authored DB2 Universal Database in the Solaris Operating Environment.

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