DB2 High Performance Design and Tuning

• The only all-in-one, start-to-finish guide to maximizing DB2 performance!
• Top 20 DB2 Performance Myths-and what to do about them
• Includes exclusive, in-depth coverage of DB2 Versions 6.x and 7!
• Tuning for the DB2 designers, developers and administrators
• Design and tuning for robust e-commerce functionality

Foreword by Roger Miller, IBM Lead DB2 Strategist

This is the most comprehensive, practical DB2 optimization guide ever published! World-renowned DB2 consultants Richard Yevich and Susan Lawson cover all aspects of DB2 performance tuning: hardware, physical design, application coding, SQL, stored procedures, triggers, Java, and beyond. Review I/O, storage management, SMS usage, CPU tuning, memory tuning, and bufferpool design. Master every key DB2 database design optimization, including indexing, code and reference tables, and supporting the DB2 Catalog and Directory. Discover start-to-finish application development techniques proven to deliver outstanding performance, including commit strategies, application interfaces, and superior SQL coding techniques.

• Top 20 DB2 Performance Myths—and what to do about them!
• Based on hands-on experience at hundreds of DB2 installations
• Includes hands-on, in-depth coverage of data sharing and DB2 Version 7!
• For developers, designers, and DBAs

From OLAP to OLTP, e-business to high availability, troubleshooting to long-term monitoring, this book covers it all. You'll be amazed at how much more performance you can squeeze out of your DB2 system—with DB2 High Performance Development & Tuning!

Contents

• 1. I/O and Storage Management.
  
• 2. CPU.
  
• 3. Memory.
  
• 4. Catalog and Directory.
  
• 5. Physical Database Objects.
  
• 6. VLDBs, VLTBs, and Warehouses.
  
• 7. Large Objects (LOBs).
  
• 8. Special Tables.
  
• 9. Roles in Database Implementation.
  
• 10. General Application Design.
  
• 11. Version 6 Late Additions and Version 7.
  
• 12. Program Design and Processing.
  
• 13. Locking and Concurrency.
  
• 14. Temporary Tables.
  
• 15. Enterprise Resource Planning.
  
• 16. SQL.
  
• 17. Triggers and User-Defined Functions.
  
• 18. LOBs and Extenders.
  
• 19. Stored Procedures.
  
• 20. REXX, Java, and SQL Procedure Language.
  
• 21. Parallelism.
  
• 22. Predictive Analysis, Governing and Tuning.
  
• 23. Influencing the Optimizer.
  
• 24. E-Business, the Web, and Networks.
  
• 25. Data Sharing Overview and Processing Costs.
  
• 26. Hardware and Configuration Considerations.
  
• 27. Locking.
  
• 28. Group Buffer Pools.
  
• 29. Migration.
  
• 30. Application Tuning.
  
• 31. Physical Design.
  
• 32. Problem Diagnosing.
  
• 33. Long-Term Monitoring.
  
• Index.