January 2005
Beginner to intermediate
928 pages
22h 14m
English
Because DB2 maintains the SYSIBM and SYSCAT system catalog tables and views, they are read-only. However, you can update the SYSSTAT views. This is a special set of views that you can use to update database statistics. The information contained in these views affects how the DB2 optimizer chooses access plans when executing a query.
For planning purposes, you can change the statistical information in the SYSSTAT tables so that they do not reflect the actual state of tables and indexes. This lets you:
Model query performance on a development system using production system statistics.
Perform what-if query performance analysis by examining various possible changes to the query ...
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