January 2005
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When you issue the activate database command or connect to a database for the first time, DB2 automatically allocates the database-level shared memory (see Figure 15.3). This memory caches the object pages that are being manipulated to control concurrency on the rows of data, ensure transactional integrity for all operations on the database, and so on.
The components of database shared memory include:
The database buffer pool(s)
The lock list
The shared sort area (if intra-partition parallelism is enabled)
The database heap, which also includes
- The log buffer ...
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