Book description
The Definitive Solutions-Oriented Guide to IBM® DB2®
for z/OS®: Now Fully Updated for Both v9 and v10!
The largest database tuning performance gains can often be obtained
from tuning application code, and applications that use SQL to
retrieve data are the best candidates for tuning. This
well-organized, easy-to-understand reference brings together more
than 100 SQL-related skills and techniques that any developer can
use to build and optimize DB2 applications for consistently
superior performance.
DB2 tuning expert Tony Andrews (“Tony the Tuner”) draws
on more than 20 years of DB2-related experience, empowering you to
take performance into your own hands, whether you’re writing
new software or tuning existing systems. Tony shows you exactly how
to clear bottlenecks, resolve problems, and improve both speed and
reliability.
This book fully reflects the latest SQL programming best practices
for DB2 V9 and DB2 V10 on z/OS: techniques that are taught in no
other book and are rarely covered in general DB2 SQL courses.
Drawing on his extensive consulting experience and highly praised
training with Themis Inc., Tony also presents practical checklists
and an invaluable 15-step methodology for optimizing virtually any
DB2 application.
Coverage includes
Empowering developers on knowing what to do and where to look in resolving performance problems in queries or programs
Providing many programming and SQL coding examples
Establishing standards and guidelines that lead to high-performance SQL
Implementing time-efficient code walkthroughs to ensure that your standards are followed
Focusing on the small number of SQL statements that consume the most resources
Identifying simple solutions that deliver the most sizable benefits
Optimizing performance by rewriting query predicates more efficiently
Providing a better understanding of SQL optimization and Runstat statistics
Recognizing opportunities to tweak your code more effectively than the Optimizer
Optimizing SQL code with COBOL applications
Efficiently checking for the existence of data, rows, or tables
Using Runstats’ newest capabilities to consistently optimize paths to data
Table of contents
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- Chapter 1. SQL Optimization Top 100+
- Chapter 2. DB2 SQL Hints
- Chapter 3. SQL Standards and Guidelines
- Chapter 4. SQL Program Walkthroughs
- Chapter 5. Existence Checking
- Chapter 6. Runstats
- Chapter 7. Initial Steps in Tuning a Query
- Appendix A. Predicate Rewrite Examples
- Appendix B. DB2 SQL Terminology
- Index
Product information
- Title: DB2 SQL Tuning Tips for z/OS Developers
- Author(s):
- Release date: October 2012
- Publisher(s): IBM Press
- ISBN: 9780133038484
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