June 2018
Intermediate to advanced
478 pages
10h 52m
English
There are several ways to convert data from row- to column-organized. Db2convert is an executable program wrapper for ADMIN_MOVE_TABLE, with a few nice features included.
It is possible to convert all of the tables in a database with one command. The tables, such as range clustered, typed, MQT, declared global temporary, and created global temporary, cannot be converted to column-organized tables, and are skipped automatically. Using the -force parameter will convert all other tables, including range partition, MDC and ITC tables:
db2convert -d mydb
During the conversion process, it is possible to stop execution in specific phases. For example, the -stopbeforeswap option will halt the move operation at swap, preventing INIT, ...
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