DB2 Developer's Guide - Softcover

Mullins, Craig S.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0672326132 ISBN 13: 9780672326134

Publisher: Sams, 2004

Synopsis

Learn the best techniques and tricks from expert author Craig Mullins. Apply these real-world pieces of advice, undocumented tips, solutions, projects, and techniques to your own database management system. Mullins gives you what you need to take your DB2 development to the next level.

Written by a developer for developers, DB2 Developer¿s Guide, Fifth Edition provides a solutions-oriented approach to learning the foundation and capabilities of this latest version of the world¿s number one database management system.

LEARN THE CONCEPTS AND BUILD THE APPLICATIONS

• Implement innovative shortcuts, tips, tricks, techniques, and development guidelines to optimize all facets of DB2 development and administration
• Understand the guidelines for binding DB2 application plans and packages
• Use expert advice to implement distributed DB2 applications
• Connect your DB2 databases to the World Wide Web
• Review exhaustive coverage of V6 topics¿including triggers, user-defined functions, stored procedure extensions, predictive governing, hiperspace bufferpools, the REBUILD utility, the DSSIZE parameter, user-defined distinct types, auxiliary tables, and more
• Read implementation information and guidance for large objects to store multimedia data¿such as audio, video, and images¿in your DB2 for OS/390 databases (BLOBs, CLOBs, DBCLOBs, and DB2 extenders)
• Learn how and why to use the new EXPLAIN tables - DSN_STATEMNT_TABLE and DSN_FUNCTION_TABLE
• Discover how to implement a procedural DBA function to manage triggers, stored procedures, and UDFs

About this title

From the Back Cover

DB2 Developer's Guide, Fourth Edition is completely revised and updated, covering all the new features for Version 6 for OS/390. It includes a special chapter on how changes to the product impact its use. This book clarifies complex DB2 topics, provides performance and procedural advice for implementing well-designed DB2 applications, and describes what DB2 does behind the scenes. An entire chapter on Internet-related features is included.

About the Author

Craig S. Mullins is Director of DB2 Technology Planning for BMC Software, Inc. He has extensive experience in all facets of database systems development, including systems analysis and design, database and system administration, data analysis, and developing and teaching DB2 and Sybase classes. Craig is a regular lecturer at industry conferences and also frequently writes for computer industry publications.

Edition details

• Publisher: Sams
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0672326132
• ISBN 13: 9780672326134
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 5
• Number of pages: 1487