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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)

Db2 troubleshooting tools

This section explores two key monitoring and troubleshooting tools: db2pd and dsmtop.

The db2pd command

You can use the Db2 problem determination tool, db2pd, to obtain troubleshooting information from database system memory sets, without acquiring any lock or latch in the database. Since the db2pd tool works directly with memory, it is possible to retrieve information that is changing as it is being collected using minimal Db2 engine resources.

If the database is running in a Massively Parallel Processing (MPP) setup, a pureScale configuration, or an HADR setup, this command must be run on all the nodes or members of the cluster. However, if you have logical partitions within one physical server...