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A Complete Guide to DB2 Universal Database (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management...
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by Don Chamberlin
Sales Rank: 366590
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List Price: $88.95
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Paperback: 795 pages
Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann; 1st edition August 15, 1998
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1558604820
ISBN-13: 978-1558604827
Product Dimensions:
17.6 x 9.2 x 1.9 inches
Shipping Weight: 3.6 pounds
Product Description
DB2 Universal Database (UDB) supports many different types of applications, on many different kinds of data, in many different software and hardware environments.
This book provides a complete guide to DB2 UDB Version 5 in all its aspects, including the interfaces that support end users, application developers, and database administrators. It is complementary to the IBM product documentation, providing a clear and informal explanation of how the features of DB2 were intended to be used. It is an extensive revision of the author's earlier book, Using the New DB2: IBM's Object-Relational Database System.
* Offers complete and self-contained information, and does not assume prior knowledge of DB2, SQL, or relational database concepts
* Covers elementary principles of database management as well as the advanced features of UDB, including recursive queries, constraints, triggers, user-defined datatypes, stored procedures, parallel databases, and graphical tools for database administration
* Includes dozens of practical tips that will save readers many hours of work in developing database applications
* Provides hundreds of tested examples written in SQL, C, C++, and Java, all of which are available on the MKP web site
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DB2 Universal Database (UDB) supports many different types of applications, on many different kinds of data, in many different software and hardware environments.
This book provides a complete guide to DB2 UDB Version 5 in all its aspects, including the interfaces that support end users, application developers, and database administrators. It is complementary to the IBM product documentation, providing a clear and informal explanation of how the features of DB2 were intended to be used. It is an extensive revision of the author's earlier book, Using the New DB2: IBM's Object-Relational Database System.
Features:
- Offers complete and self-contained information, and does not assume prior knowledge of DB2, SQL, or relational database concepts
- Covers elementary principles of database management as well as the advanced features of UDB, including recursive queries, constraints, triggers, user-defined datatypes, stored procedures, parallel databases, and graphical tools for database administration
- Includes dozens of practical tips that will save readers many hours of work in developing database applications
- Provides hundreds of tested examples written in SQL, C, C++, and Java, all of which are available on the MKP web site
Customer Reviews & Comments
As an experienced DBA and DB developer in just about every major DB product except DB2, I was disappointed that there is no book on the market explaining "in DB2, feature A works like this; feature B goes like that; feature C is entirely unique, etc. etc." However, due to the detail and simply great authoring of the chapters regarding basic data management and data definition, everything is revealed to the trained DBA eye. It was a pleasure to read, frankly, but I'm not sure if a beginner would be able to 'read between the lines' as I did. This book would be five stars but for the following problems- the cover seems to have be constructed with tissue paper, and in my opinion the chapters regarding embedded/external language (C, Java, etc.) and DBA administration should be carved out and put in seperate books, where they can be given proper attention. Furthermore, codepages and general management of multilingual characters are simply absent, which is great shame because as far as I can see DB2 has the best management of all the major DB products. I'd really like to know if I'm fully exploiting the 'graphic' (double-byte character) datatype and charset translation features.
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A Complete Guide to DB2 Universal Database (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management...
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