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9780130463883

Advanced DBA Certification Guide and Reference for DB2 Universal Database v8 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows

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    9780130463883

  • ISBN10:

    0130463884

  • Edition: CD
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2003-07-07
  • Publisher: IBM Press
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Summary

Straight from IBM,Advanced DBA Certification Guide and Reference for DB2 Universal Database v8for Linux, UNIX, and Windowsis the definitive guide to enterprise-class DB2 v8 administration - andtheonlyauthoritative self-study guide for IBM's new DB2 advanced DBA exam. Delivers proventechniques for enterprise-class security, user management, recovery, scalability, optimization,troubleshooting, remote administration, and more! CD-ROM: DB2 Universal Database v8 EnterpriseServer Edition trial version plus complete documentation.

Author Biography

DWAINE R. SNOW has twelve years of experience implementing and tuning DB2 to support workloads from Web-based transactions up to multiterabyte data warehouses. Snow is the product manager for DB2 partitioned databases and is co-author of The DB2 Cluster Certification Guide.

THOMAS X. PHAN is an IBM Certified I/T Specialist in the IBM Data Management Consulting practice with over thirteen years of data processing experience. He specializes in relational database-related services including application design, logical and physical database design, and performance and tuning on numerous DB2 UDB platforms.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Preface
Data Storage
Some Terminology Used in DB
The Default Database
Table Spaces
Containers
Extents
Creating Table Spaces
The Table Space Types
SMS Table Spaces
DMS Table Spaces
Should the Temporary Table Space Be SMS or DMS? Additional Table Space Options/Parameters
Listing Table Spaces
SYSCAT
TABLESPACES View
SYSCAT
TABLES View
When Is a Table Space Full? Table Space Maps and Table Space Extent Maps
Altering a Table Space
The Table Space's Partition Group
Database Partition Groups
Disk Layout
Summary
Data Manipulation
The Buffer Pools
Buffer Pool Usage
How Many Buffer Pools Should a Database Have?
When to Consider Multiple Buffer Pools
Buffer Pool Overhead
32- and 64-bit Considerations
Hidden Buffer Pools
Altering Buffer Pools
Block-Based Buffer Pools Can Improve Sequential Prefetching
System Catalog Views Relating to Buffer Pools
What Is Prefetching? What Is Page Cleaning? Monitoring Buffer Pool Activity
Buffer Pool Tuning
Parallelism
Intra-Partition Parallelism
Inter-Partition Parallelism
Combined Intra-Partition Parallelism and Inter-Partition Parallelism
Why Partition a Database on a Large SMP Server? Considerations with Multiple Database Partitions
Types of Database Objects
Tables
Partition Maps
The Relationship between Partition Groups, Table Spaces, and Tables
Partitioning Keys
Summary
Database Availability
Ability to Manage Logs
Primary Logs (LOGPRIMARY)
Secondary Logs (LOGSECOND)
Log File Size (LOGFILSIZ)
Log Buffer Size (LOGBUFSZ)
Number of Commits to Group (MINCOMMIT)
New Log Path (NEWLOGPATH)
Overflow Log Path (OVERFLOWLOGPATH)
Log Mirroring
Reducing Logging with the NOT LOGGED INITIALLY Parameter Option
Reducing Logging with Declared Global Temporary Tables (DGTTs)
Managing Log Files
Archiving Log Files with a User Exit Program
How Truncated Logs Are Handled
Log File Allocation and Removal
Blocking Transactions When the Log Directory File Is Full
On Demand Log Archive
Using Raw Logs
How to Prevent Losing Log Files
Review Session
Observation
Developing a Backup and Recovery Strategy
The Recovery History File
Deciding How Often to Back Up
Storage Considerations
Keeping Related Data Together
Using Different Operating Systems
Crash Recovery
Disaster Recovery
Version Recovery
Rollforward Recovery
Incremental Backup and Recovery
Backup Overview
Displaying Backup Information
Authorities Required to Use Backup
Using Backup
Backing Up to Tape
Backing Up to Named Pipes
Backup Database: Examples
Optimizing Backup Performance
Offline versus Online Backup
Backup Considerations
Restore Overview
Authorities Required to Use Restore
Using Restore
Using Incremental Restore in a Test and Production Environment
Redefining Table Space Containers During a Restore Operation (Redirected Restore)
Restoring to an Existing Database
Restoring to a New Database
Restore Database: Examples
Optimizing Restore Performance
Restore Considerations
Restore to a Damaged Partition
Rollforward Overview
Authorities Required to Use Rollforward
Using Rollforward
Rollforward Database: Examples
High Availability Clustering
Split Mirror
Suspend I/O Feature
The db2inidb Tool
High Availability through Log Shipping
High Availability through Online Split Mirror and Suspended I/O Support
Split Mirror to Clone a Database
Split Mirror as a Standby Database
Split Mirror as a Backup Image
High Availability on AIX
Hot Standby with a Cascading Resource Group
Mutual Takeover with a Cascading Resource Group
High Availability on the Windows Operating System
Clustered Servers for High Availability
High Availability on Sun Solaris
High Availability with VERITAS Cluster Server
Considerations for Hig
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