Course Description

DB2 Version 8 Differences

This course: course objectives; course outline;
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Benefits

The student will learn what has changed in DB2 Version 8, 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 adminsitrators, and systems programmers who will be involved in migrating, developing, maintaining, or enhancing systems that will operate under DB2 Version 8.

Prerequisites

The student should be knowledgable of the features of the DB2 Data Base Management System that are relevant for data base administration.

Related IBM Materials

This course is drawn from these IBM manuals; access to them in the classroom is desirable but not required:

SC18-7425 - DB2 Version 8 Release Guide

• 64-bit virtual storage impact
• Unicode impact
• DML SQL enhancements
• Sensitive dynamic cursors
• Multiple row SQL
• Common table expressions
• Recursive SQL
• Sequence objects
• Materialized query tables
• Table-controlled partitioning
• Adding/rotating partitions
• Online schema changes
• Data partitioned secondary indexes
• Utility enhancements
• Catalog table changes
• Command enhancements

Exercises

There are eight exercises in the three day version of this course.