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Chapter 8. Analyzing database performance
data with Visual Explain
The launch of Visual Explain with iSeries Navigator Version 4, Release 5, Modification 0
(V4R5M0) in DB2 Universal Database for iSeries was of great interest to database
administrators working in an iSeries server environment. This feature has been described as
a quantum leap forward in database tuning for query optimization. Visual Explain provides an
easy-to-understand graphical interface that represents the optimizer implementation of the
query.
For the first time, you can see, in graphic detail, how the optimizer has implemented ...