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IBM Db2 11.1 Certification Guide
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IBM Db2 11.1 Certification Guide

by Robert (Kent) Collins, Mohankumar Saraswatipura
June 2018
Intermediate to advanced
478 pages
10h 52m
English
Packt Publishing
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Data compression

In Db2, compression has been evolutionary, going back to the column compression days of Db2 for MVS, and later, the row compression algorithm Lempel-Ziv. Popular compression algorithms are lossless-based, meaning they remove repeating values when you deflate, or zip when data is stored and inflate or unzip when read. In this section, we are going to focus on V11.1 data compression, and specifically, table and index compression.

There are four types of compression in Db2. The following table lists the types of compression, with some details about each:

Object

Dictionary

Type

Controlled

Table

Row

Static

ALTER/CREATE TABLE ...

COMPRESS YES STATIC

Table

Column

Adaptive

Controlled by Db2. Cannot be ...

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ISBN: 9781788626910