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DB2® for z/OS® Version 8 DBA Certification Guide
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DB2® for z/OS® Version 8 DBA Certification Guide

by Susan Lawson
October 2004
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
688 pages
16h 35m
English
IBM Press
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Chapter 4. Database Objects

• Understanding data structures

• Managing database objects

• Creating database objects: data types, tables and table spaces, aliases and synonyms, constraints, views, materialized query tables, indexes, databases, storage groups, and sequence objects

• Database design and implementation

DB2 is a relational database that consists of one or more tables made up of rows and columns. The tables are created and accessed using the industry-standard Structured Query Language. Data in these tables is accessed via content, not location. This chapter looks at the structures in a DB2 subsystem and those that make up a DB2 database.

Many of these objects can be directly referenced from an SQL statement; therefore, it is important ...

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