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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)

Practice questions

Question 1

Which statement regarding the CHECK constraint is TRUE?

  1. The CHECK constraint is supported in both row-organized and column-organized tables.
  2. A table can have only one CHECK constraint defined.
  3. When there are some rows that do not meet the CHECK constraint, the CHECK constraint can still be created.
  4. The ALTER TABLE statement can be used to define a CHECK constraint on an existing table.

Question 2

What are NOT ENFORCED informational constraints used for?

  1. To influence the Db2 optimizer data access plan during referential integrity constraint enforcement.
  2. To influence the Db2 optimizer data access plan for the SELECT operation without impacting the INSERT and UPDATE operations.
  3. To influence the Db2 optimizer to use the primary key index during the SELECT operation.
  4. To influence the Db2 optimizer to always cache the data in the buffer pool for faster...