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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 IBM Data Server Manager (DSM)

The IBM Data Server Manager is an integrated database management tool platform for Db2 on Linux, UNIX, and Windows, and is built based on four key features:

  • Identify:
    • Receive early notifications of problems before they impact the service
    • Quickly isolate problems across the database, network, and application layers
    • Get visibility into problems by workload, to prioritize response
  • Diagnose:
    • Follow the well-proven guided workflows to diagnose
    • Provide a complete view of data, from real time to any specific time in the past
    • Dive deeply into root causes, with detailed drill-down capabilities
    • Use built-in integration to leverage data from other IBM solutions
  • Solve:
    • Receive easy-to-understand, actionable recommendations for problem resolution
    • Tune entire workloads to balance costs across query and insert actions
  • Prevent:
    • Capture all...