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IBM DB2 9.7 Advanced Application Developer Cookbook

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IBM DB2 9.7 Advanced Application Developer Cookbook

Overview of this book

With lots of new features, DB2 9.7 delivers one the best relational database systems in the market. DB2 pureXML optimizes Web 2.0 and SOA applications. 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. This DB2 9.7 Advanced Application Developer Cookbook will provide an in-depth quick reference during any application's design and development. This practical cookbook focuses on advanced application development areas that include performance tips and the most useful DB2 features that help in designing high quality applications. This book dives deep into tips and tricks for optimized application performance. With this book you will learn how to use various DB2 features in database applications in an interactive way.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
IBM DB2 9.7 Advanced Application Developer Cookbook
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Creating Declared Global Temporary Tables (DGTTs)


Declared Global Temporary Tables (also known as DGTTs) are used to store temporary results within an application. Because these tables are only used for temporary storage, they do not persist. They do not appear in the system catalog either. And because they don't persist, they can't be shared with other applications. When the application using this table terminates, any data in the table is deleted and the table is dropped.

Another key difference between DGTTs and regular tables is that the rows in a DGTT cannot be locked, as the temporary tables can't be shared among different applications. In this recipe, we will create a declared global temporary table.

Getting ready

  • To create a declared global temporary table, we need a user temporary table space.

  • To create a declared global temporary table, we need at least one of the following authorities/privileges:

    • USE privilege on USER TEMPORARY TABLE SPACE

    • DBADM authority

    • SYSADM authority

    • SYSCTRL...