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DB2® SQL PL: Essential Guide for DB2® UDB on Linux™, UNIX®, Windows®, i5/OS™, and z/OS®, Second Edition
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DB2® SQL PL: Essential Guide for DB2® UDB on Linux™, UNIX®, Windows®, i5/OS™, and z/OS®, Second Edition

by Zamil Janmohamed, Clara Liu, Drew Bradstock, Raul Chong, Michael Gao, Fraser McArthur, Paul Yip
November 2004
Intermediate to advanced
576 pages
11h 49m
English
IBM Press
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Appendix A. Getting Started with DB2

If you have not used DB2 before, this appendix is the perfect place to start. It covers DB2 fundamentals and commands that will prepare you to work with the SQL procedure examples demonstrated in this book.

The first part of this appendix is focused on DB2 LUW. DB2 commands are illustrated to show how to create and manipulate DB2 instances, databases, buffer pools, table spaces, and tables. A set of DB2 graphical tools is also available to accomplish the same tasks, and more information can be found in the Online Help for the DB2 Administration Tools manual. Focus is on the executing from the command line using a DB2 Command window on Windows or a UNIX shell.

The second part of this appendix covers the iSeries ...

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