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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)

Physical Design

This chapter will prepare you to create, manage, and alter physical database objects. You will learn the proper use of compression, along with partitioning capabilities. We will discuss the implementation of Db2 BLU, along with the pureScale enhancements in the v11.1 release. We will also review the SQL enhancements in the Db2 v11.1 release. After the completion of this chapter, you will be able to demonstrate the ability to perform the following tasks:

  • Creating, altering, and managing Db2 objects
  • Implementing BLU acceleration
  • Describing Db2 pureScale enhancements
  • Properly use compression
  • Describing SQL compatibility
  • Describing partitioning capabilities
Certification test:
  • Number of questions: 13
  • Percentage of the exam: 22%