2.6. Database Partitioning Feature
In this section we introduce you to the database partitioning feature (DPF) available on DB2 UDB Enterprise Server Edition (ESE). DPF lets you partition your database across multiple servers or within a large SMP server. This allows for scalability, since you can add new machines and spread your database across them. That means more CPUs, more memory, and more disks from each of the additional machines for your database!
DB2 UDB ESE with DPF is ideal to manage large databases, whether you are doing data warehousing, data mining, online analytical processing (OLAP), or working with online transaction processing (OLTP) workloads. You do not have to install any new code to enable this feature, but you must purchase ...
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