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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 Utilities

This chapter will introduce you to the data movement utilities, such as Import, Export, Load, and Ingest, that are available in Db2. You will be able to use online table movement procedures to copy a specific table and specific schema without impacting on applications. You will also be introduced to database maintenance utilities such as REORG, REORGCHK, REBIND, and RUNSTATS. In addition to this, you will learn how to use the db2look and db2move tool commands:

  • Demonstrate the ability to use the Export utility to extract data from a database and store it in an external file
  • Demonstrate the ability to use the Import and Load (bulk-load) utilities to load the data from an external file to a database table
  • Demonstrate the ability to use the Continuous Data Ingest (CDI) utility to perform high-speed data transformation, and loading into a database table
  • Demonstrate the...