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IBM DB2 9.7 Advanced Administration Cookbook

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IBM DB2 9.7 Advanced Administration Cookbook

Overview of this book

IBM DB2 LUW is a leading relational database system developed by IBM. DB2 LUW database software offers industry leading performance, scale, and reliability on your choice of platform on various Linux distributions, leading Unix Systems like AIX, HP-UX and Solaris and MS Windows platforms. With lots of new features, DB2 9.7 delivers one the best relational database systems in the market. IBM DB2 9.7 Advanced Administration Cookbook covers all the latest features with instance creation, setup, and administration of multi-partitioned database. This practical cookbook provides step-by-step instructions to build and configure powerful databases, with scalability, safety and reliability features, using industry standard best practices. This book will walk you through all the important aspects of administration. You will learn to set up production capable environments with multi-partitioned databases and make the best use of hardware resources for maximum performance. With this guide you can master the different ways to implement strong databases with a High Availability architecture.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
IBM DB2 9.7 Advanced Administration Cookbook
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Creating a benchmark testing scenario


Creating a benchmark does involve lots of resources, including application developers and database administrators. The extra time it takes can have maximum returns in the long run. We suggest you consider this option if you are developing an application.

If your IT department is using an ERP such as JD Edwards or SAP, you can also benefit from this approach. A benchmark is useful because it helps you define a controlled environment in which you can have repeatable tests.

You can test deadlock scenarios, table space configurations, or database parameters. The same conditions and tests help you pinpoint, accurately, the best options for tuning your databases.

Getting ready

Allow for hardware and software resources, and time for an implementation team, with project lead, application developers, and system and database administrators. Make this part of your implementation project, or it could even be considered as a project on its own.

Have representative SQLs...