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Preface
The goal of database performance tuning is to minimize the response time of your queries. It
is also to optimize your server’s resources by minimizing network traffic, disk I/O, and CPU
time.
This IBM® Redbook helps you to understand the basics of identifying and tuning the
performance of Structured Query Language (SQL) statements using IBM DB2® for i5/OS®.
DB2 for i5/OS provides a comprehensive set of tools that help technical analysts tune SQL
queries. The SQL Performance Monitors are part of the set of tools that IBM i5/OS provides
for assisting in SQL performance analysis since V