March 2012
Intermediate to advanced
442 pages
9h 31m
English
When we perform the ALTER TABLE operations, such as dropping a column, in earlier versions of DB2, modifying the data types would force the database administrator to perform REORG on the table before any application would work on the table. Now in DB2 9.7, one can perform an unlimited number of table alterations within a single unit of work. This will allow a data modeler to manage the alteration of the column easily.
By default, autocommit is ON in DB2. That means each SQL statement we execute is a unit of work or a transaction. There are many ways to execute the unit of work; the simplest one is to turn off autocommit, or use db2 + c at the beginning, or use atomic procedures. ...
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