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IBM Db2 11.1 Certification Guide

By : Robert (Kent) Collins, Mohankumar Saraswatipura
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IBM Db2 11.1 Certification Guide

By: Robert (Kent) Collins, Mohankumar Saraswatipura

Overview of this book

IBM Db2 is a relational database management system (RDBMS) that helps you store, analyze, and retrieve data efficiently. This comprehensive book is designed to help you master all aspects of IBM Db2 database administration and prepare you to take and pass IBM's Certification Exams C2090-600. Building on years of extensive experience, the authors take you through all areas covered by the test. The book delves deep into each certification topic: Db2 server management, physical design, business rules implementation, activity monitoring, utilities, high availability, and security. IBM Db2 11.1 Certification Guide provides you with more than 150 practice questions and answers, simulating real certification examination questions. Each chapter includes an extensive set of practice questions along with carefully explained answers. This book will not just prepare you for the C2090-600 exam but also help you troubleshoot day-to-day database administration challenges.
Table of Contents (10 chapters)

A word about Db2 workload manager (WLM)

The Db2 WLM is a feature that can help identify, manage, monitor, and control the database workload, to better reflect the organization and priorities of your business.

The WLM environment can be designed using the following four stages:

  1. Definition of the business goals: It is necessary to understand the overall business goal you are trying to achieve for this system. For example, you may want to limit certain business processes to no more than 10% of system resources, while allowing a few critical business processes to utilize up to 80% of the resources.
  2. Identification of the work entering the database server: Identification of the activities, in detail, for each of the business goals identified in step 1. For example, for critical business processes, identify the application user name or authorization ID that submits the query.
  3. Management...