Chapter 14. DB2 Extenders
DB2 Extenders enhance the usability and functionality of the RDMS. Application developers use them to assist with nontraditional data types such as formatted documents, geographical coordinates, and multimedia data. They add tools for managing, manipulating, and interpreting characteristics of these data types with standard SQL statements. DB2 Extenders provide many useful features that can be integrated with software applications.
Several DB2 Extender products make up the DB2 Extenders Family: Text Extender; Net Search Extender; Audio, Image, and Video (AIV) Extenders; XML Extender; and Spatial Extender. Text Extender is used to provide advanced text search capabilities such as linguistic and fuzzy logic searches. ...
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