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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)

Answers

Question 1: The correct answer is 3. Ingest is the best choice to process and load the data in real-time.

Load: Low: allows read-only operations

Import: High: sometimes escalates to table level lock

Ingest: Very high: row-level locking

db2move: This utility is beneficial whenever you want to move data from one database to another. But, it can't be used for real-time processing.

Question 2: The correct answer is 1. Ingest is a client-side utility.

Attribute

Ingest

Speed

Fast: uses parallel insert threads

Concurrency

Very high: row-level locking

Transaction logging

Every record change is logged

Behavior on failure

Rollback, and table is accessible

LOBs and XML data

Unsupported data type

Utility type

Client-side

Triggers activation

Yes

Constraint validation

Yes

Is table space backup necessary?

No

Utility...