DB2 Database Administration & Tuning
5 days

TABLE OF CONTENTS

I. DB2 Architecture

Objectives
A. DB2 Storage Groups.…………....................…............................
B. DB2 New Features .................……….........................................
C. DB2 Environment .............................………...............................
D. DB2 Buffer Pool Management……………………………………..
E. Creating and Granting User Privileges........................................

II IBM Administration Utilities

Objectives
A. Using DB2 Utility screens - …….............................................
B. Load Utility………………….. ..................................................
C. Reorg Utility………………......................................................
D. Recover Utility…………………………………. ........................
E.. Applying Backup and Recovery schemas................................
F. Application Programming Process
G. Freeing Plans
H. Copy Utility
I. The MergeCopy Utility
J. DB2 Image Copy, Logging and Recovery…………………..
K. The DB2 STOSPACE Utility Considerations……………….

III. Database Tuning

Objectives
A. Accessing tables through Joins ................................................
B. Understanding the use of Complex Queries Tuning......................
C. Using Explain to identify bad performing SQL.............................
D. Utilizing Runstats for best advantage………………………… ....
E. Understanding Phase 1 & 2 predicates

DB2 Database Administration

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IV. DATA DEFINITION LANGUAGE

Objectives
A. Creating and granting access to Base tables with Referential Integrity.
B. Using proper DB2 datatypes .................................................
C. Building Indexes for base tables ..............................................
D. Creating Views for Users .........................................................
E. Creating Synonyms ..................................................................

V. SYSIBM CATALOG TABLES
Objectives
A. Reviewing the SYSIBM tables for Performance….......................
B. Identifying Statistical patterns…..……….. .................................
C. The Optimizer plans………........................................................
D. Error Handling…. ...................................................................
E. Row Level Locking...................................................................

VI. PERFORMANCE & TUNING WITH SQL

Objectives
A. Replacing Joins with Subqueries ................................................
B. Exists and NOT Exists vs Correlated Subqueries................................
C. Using Joins over Subqueries.............................
D. Tablespace performance (Segmented vs Partitioned vs Simple) ....
E. Understanding Filter Factors
F. DB2 Row Locking
G. Index Performance
H. Problem Solving QMF buffering