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1.2 Introduction to DB2 10
DB2 10 introduces many new features that help you lower your administrative,
application development, and storage costs, while maintaining highly reliable and
available database environments.
Several features in this release allow you to take advantage of native capability
built directly into DB2, minimizing development time and costs by avoiding the
need for an application developer to build the capabilities into the application.
For example, with Time Travel Query functionality, an application can simply use
SQL to determine the data in a row of a table at a particular point in time.
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