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IBM DB2 9.7 Advanced Application Developer Cookbook

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IBM DB2 9.7 Advanced Application Developer Cookbook

Overview of this book

With lots of new features, DB2 9.7 delivers one the best relational database systems in the market. DB2 pureXML optimizes Web 2.0 and SOA applications. DB2 LUW database software offers industry leading performance, scale, and reliability on your choice of platform on various Linux distributions, leading Unix Systems like AIX, HP-UX and Solaris and MS Windows platforms. This DB2 9.7 Advanced Application Developer Cookbook will provide an in-depth quick reference during any application's design and development. This practical cookbook focuses on advanced application development areas that include performance tips and the most useful DB2 features that help in designing high quality applications. This book dives deep into tips and tricks for optimized application performance. With this book you will learn how to use various DB2 features in database applications in an interactive way.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
IBM DB2 9.7 Advanced Application Developer Cookbook
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
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Preface

Monitoring application performance


Once an application has been deployed and run in production, we should actively monitor it for potential bottlenecks. DB2 provides various tools that can be used to monitor application activities. These include event monitors, snapshots, SQL-based snapshots, and monitoring functions, administrative views, and stored procedures. In this recipe, we will discuss different areas of application monitoring and the preferred tools that an application developer can use.

In this recipe, we will discuss various administrative views, routines, and functions which are very useful for monitoring applications.

How to do it...

There are different aspects of monitoring. Whenever we observe any slowdown in application performance, we need handy scripts that can be used to monitor and identify problems. This recipe provides various monitoring tips and commands that can be used for such monitoring requirements.

  • Monitoring current SQL statements: The MON_CURRENT_SQL administrative...