Course Description

DB2 Version 6 Differences

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Benefits

The student will learn what has changed in DB2 Version 6, what has been added in this release, and how the changes affect the activities that are associated with DB2.

Audience

Application programmers, data base administrators, system administrators, and systems programmers who will be involved in migrating, developing, maintaining, or enhancing systems that will operate under DB2 Version 6.

Prerequisites

The student should be knowledgable of the features of the DB2 Data Base Management System that are relevant for his / her job responsibilities.

Related IBM Materials

This course is drawn from this IBM manual; access to it in the classroom is desirable but not required:

SC26-9013 - DB2 Version 6 Release Guide

• New Built-in Functions
• Direct row access
• Optimization hints
• PLAN_Table changes
• Schema, Distinct types, User-defined functions
• DSNTEP2 changes
• Predictive governing and other performance enhancements
• Stored Procedures Enhancements
• SQL Procedures Language
• Catalog table changes
• Increased limits
• BLOBs, CLOBs, and DBCLOBs
• Triggers
• Utility enhancements
• REXX language support
• JAVA
• DB2 extenders
• DB2 UDB Server features

Exercises

There are six standard and two optional machine exercises.