A preparatory guide to exam 506 of the IBM Certified Advanced Technical Expert-DB2 Universal Database (UDB) V5 Program which covers the DB2 UDB Enterprise-Extended Edition. After a brief overview of DB2 UDB, the authors examine installation and configuration, designing and implementing a database, loading and managing data, and performance tuning and problem determination. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
JONATHAN COOK is an Advisory Software Engineer at IBM's ITSO in Austin, Texas. He has ten years of database experience, and teaches IBM DB2 classes worldwide.
CALENE JANACEK is DB2 Project Leader for IBM's ITSO in Austin, Texas, and co-author of the DB2 Universal Database Certification Guide.
DWAINE SNOW has eight years of experience designing applications for DB2 and its predecessors. He coordinates IBM's DB2 UDB certification and education program.