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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

Introduction


DB2 9.7 introduces numerous features, which greatly reduce the application developer efforts, while enabling the application from a different data server to DB2. Earlier, DB2 9.5 introduced many features including implicit casting, synonym for DISCTINCT, EXCEPT, and SEQUENCES, global variables in packages, ARRAY collections, and large RID, ROWID support for fast enablement. Now in DB2 9.7, we have many more features, which can be enabled by setting the new DB2 registry variable, DB2_COMPATIBILITY_VECTOR, to a specific value, based on the need.