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DB2(R) Express: Easy Development and Administration (IBM Press Series--Information Management)
by Paul Yip, Kit Man Cheung, Jason Gartner, Clara Liu, Stephen O'Connell
Product Group: Book
Publisher: IBM Press (2004-10-08)
ISBN: 0131463977
EAN: 9780131463974
UPC: 076092028659
Dewey Decimal #: 005.7565
Hardcover: 496 pages
SKU: 91108000134
Condition: New
Comments: 0131463977 New, never read, may have minor wear on cover.
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
IBM DB2 UDB Express Edition Version 8.2 delivers everything small to medium-sized businesses need to accelerate time-to-value and dramatically reduce TCO in their database applications. Now, IBM's own experts show exactly how to get started with DB2 Express, and use it to develop, deploy, and manage superior applications from start to finish. Like DB2 Express itself, this book cuts out the complexity--helping you achieve the full business benefits of today's most advanced database platform simply and quickly. You'll find step-by-step guidance and expert tips for every facet of DB2 Express development and administration, including: application design; development with both Visual Basic .NET and Java; security; deployment; performance tuning; day-to-day administration; and more. IBM's own DB2 specialists demonstrate how to use DB2 Express' graphical tools to manage DB2 more easily than any other full-function relational database. Along the way, they help you make the most of DB2 Express' powerful "autonomic" features for self-administration, self-tuning, and self-healing to drive down costs throughout the entire application lifecycle.This book will help you: *Understand DB2 Express architecture and its implications for development and administration *Install DB2 Express, create databases, and master essential DB2 Express tools *Work with database objects: schemas, data types, tables, relationships, views, and indexes *Develop VB. NET applications with ADO.NET and the DB2 .NET Data Provider *Develop Java applications with JDBC and SQLJ *Leverage DB2's concurrency model to design efficient transactions and improve user experience *Introduce database functions, stored procedures, and triggers to improve application design *Generate and manipulate data efficiently: LOAD, IMPORT, exporting to Microsoft Excel, reporting, and more *Tune performance: optimize your configuration, analyze SQL with Visual Explain, and optimize SQL with Design Advisor *Secure your applications: authentication, authorization, group privileges, and more *Deploy to production, and master silent DB2 installations *Define a solid database maintenance plan that fully leverages DB2 Express autonomic features *Troubleshoot DB2 Express and avoid common pitfalls Whether you're a developer, administrator, IT manager, or end-user, this definitive single-source guide will help you achieve results fast...and maximize DB2 Express' business value, every step of the way. 0131463977B08252004
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Customer Reviews
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iF YOU WANT TO GO DEEPER IN SPL
Rating  (5)
Date: 2006-11-06
It is really a very good book from IBM about DB2-SPL. In our company we bougth a lot of DB2 book, but this is the very best.
from basics to tricks
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DB2(R) SQL PL: Essential Guide for DB2(R) UDB on Linux(TM), UNIX(R), Windows(TM), i5/OS(TM), and z/OS(R) (2nd Edition
Rating (5)
Date: 2006-09-16
Has been extremely helpful. Good information
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A very good book on DB2 SQL PL
Rating (5)
Date: 2006-01-25
2 out of 3 customers found this reveiw helpful
I didn't know anything about writing DB2 stored procedures until I bought this book. After reading it I have written several procedures to aid in data migration. It is well laid out and has all the necessary information. The best part is that you don't feel like you are reading a technical book.
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embed yourself in db2
Rating  (4)
Date: 2004-12-27
9 out of 10 customers found this reveiw helpful
The book describes IBM's Procedural Language, which runs on their db2 servers. It is not a general purpose language, like C or Java. Rather, it is tied directly to db2 and IBM's implementation of SQL. But within this context, the book explains the expressive power of PL. It shows at length how you can write stored procedures, triggers and functions in PL. The level of detail and the cited examples should reassure you of PL's capability.
But why even write business logic code at the database layer? There have been other books on n-tier application design, which call for the locating of business logic in a middle tier and not at the database. The authors' rejoinder is that while that makes for an elegant design, practical experience shows that often, crucial logic needs to be at the database. This reduces networks traffic and can heavily improve perforance. Hence the need for PL, or something like it.
Be wary of the book's claim that PL lets you write "portable application logic". It is portable only between instances of db2 running under linux, unix, Microsoft Windows or IBM's operating systems. When you write embedded logic in PL, you are also embedding yourself or your company into db2. Which may indeed be fine by you. But just so you know.
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Excellent book for developers/DBAs new to DB2
Rating (5)
Date: 2004-10-23
17 out of 18 customers found this reveiw helpful
If you are a developer or DBA who is new to DB2, I would highly recommend this book to you. Both administration and development topics are covered, helpful best practices and tips are included, and illustrative examples are used.
The fundamental DB2 concepts and the different DB2 tools such as the Control Center are introduced in a very straightforward and easy-to-understand manner. This allows DB2-newbies to get fully up to speed on DB2 terminology and functionality, while serving as a gentle refresher for those who might have prior DB2 experience. The book achieves a good balance of topic selection and level of detail. More advance topics that are covered are explained in a manner that most novices would comprehend and in enough detail to be useful.
The prime focus of the book is on leveraging the ease-of-use and autonomic capabilities of DB2. If you are a developer not wanting to memorize database and/or SQL command syntax, you will particularly appreciate this book. The book shows how most common administrative tasks can be very easily performed using the GUI tools and Wizards provided with DB2. Ease of application development is demonstrated in both Java and Microsoft .net environments. An easy and intuitive introduction to DB2 SQLPL is also provided.
Overall, I think that if you are new to DB2, or need to learn the essential concepts/features needed to develop and/or administer DB2 quickly, you will be very pleased with this book. It is a perfect starting point for introducing the most important concepts, features, and tools. As you gain more experience and familiarity with the product, a more advanced book can be obtained.
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