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DB2 Developer's Guide (5th Edition)
by Craig S. Mullins


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This comprehensive guide to DB2, written by a noted DB2 authority, is intended for database administrators and application programmers. It serves as the complete outline for implementing optimized DB2 application systems. "Covers coding, SQL, DBA, and the DB2 utilities. Includes guidelines for using query I/O Parallelism, V3 data compression, and partition independence. Provides updated information on bufferpools and SYSDDF tables". Covers Version 3. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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New edition of a text that provides a solutions-oriented approach to learning the foundation and capabilities of the latest version of the DB2 database system. The 42 chapters describe how to master the details of DB2 for OS/390; create, administer, and manage efficient DB2 databases and applications; handle new database features of DB2 V6, including large objects, DDL and utility changes, Java, triggers, UDFs, and more; understand the fundamentals of DB2 data sharing; save time and improve performance using DB2 utilities; implement efficient dynamic and static SQL applications for DB2; build effective DB2 stored procedures and utilize them appropriately; and access DB2 data using Java.Book News, Inc.®, Portland, OR--This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

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12 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

Index is Sorely Limited, June 25, 2001
Reviewer:"kris@dougandkris.com" (St. Paul, MN USA) - See all my reviews
I am an experienced COBOL and DB2 programmer and purchased this book to use as a reference. It does cover a lot of material and co-workers use it frequently as a source for answers to in depth questions not available in other references. There is a lot of good stuff in this book.

However, I find it extremely difficult to use as a reference because the index seldom contains an entry relevant to my question. There is a LOT of information in this book and the index could stand to be several times larger in order to successfully direct you to that information. Unless you already know what you're looking for, chances are slim that you will find it in the index.

For example, I found a parameter in a SELECT statement "WITH UR" and needed to know what it meant. There was no entry under "WITH" nor "UR". There was nothing about this parm in the index under "SELECT" either. I had to go to the online IBM manuals to find out that "UR" is an isolation level and was then able to go back to the "DB2 Developer's Guide" index to find the information that I needed indexed under "isolation level".

My experience is almost exactly the same every time that I try to use this book. Again - there's a lot of info and I like the book when I do find what I want, but it be warned that you may also have difficulty using the book as a reference.

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

Very extensive, November 2, 2004
Reviewer:W Boudville (US) - See all my reviews
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[A review of the 5th EDITION 2004.]

IBM invented relational databases and its DB2 is one of the company's core technologies. While it trails Oracle in market share, the capabilities as shown here by Mullins are probably at least the equal of Oracle's 10g.

This book is designed for a full time DB2 administrator or developer, who needs an extensive reference on it. It's fair to say that you would not want to learn the theory of relational databases from this book. Sadly, there is only one, passing reference to E F Codd, in the context of normalisation of data. Minimal acknowledgment of the founder of relational modelling. Seek a learning of theory elsewhere.

Instead, the book focuses on all the options built into DB2. By now, possibly person-centuries of IBM's programmer sweat have gone int this latest version 8. You can take advantage of this accrued expertise. Though the time needed to absorb a chapter may be nontrivial.

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2 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

Great Reference Book, May 11, 2002
Reviewer: A reader
This book was very useful in providing me a greater understanding of the material.

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8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

A great book for a DB2 professional., January 3, 2002
Reviewer:Deepak D Manjarekar (Manchester, CT United States) - See all my reviews
If you are a savvy DB2 developer/DBA, you ought to own this book. This book will take you from the basics to the intricate details about DB2 internals. It also talks about data warehousing briefly so one can get an idea.
If you work with DB2 then you should own this book as a handy reference. I have benefitted with this book a lot and I would like to thank Craig for that!!! Craig keep writing.....

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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

DB2 Developer's Guide - 4th Edition, December 10, 2001
Reviewer:Claude Wright "buddy8304" (Pasadena, Maryland United States) - See all my reviews
Being a mainframe DB2 DBA for IBM Global Services, I found this book useful but not the "Bible" that some have branded it. It covers a wide array of topics relating to mainframe DB2. As some have indicated this is not a text for the UNIX or WINDOWS environment. It is exclusively for OS/390. It is a great starting point for someone looking to gain an overall knowledge of how DB2 works in that environment. But, here again, a text short on depth in many areas. But, in defense of any author trying to put together a text on DB2, there are just too many areas of depth that would have to be covered. I would like to see a text that covers typical knowledge areas and scenarios that a DB2 DBA would encounter on a daily basis and give solutions on the problem. A text that could be used as a training manual for people who want to become a certified DB2 DBA. Still, if you are looking for the one book you should have to begin with, this is the best one so far.

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0 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

Too much padding, not enough content, August 4, 2001
Reviewer:Nimmi Ragavan "1063503660" (Bristol, Avon United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
This book was useful where db2 manauls were not available. Apart from that it is not a great addition to other documents already available. Too much padding in terms of catalog table layouts.

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