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3.4.1 DB2 II V8.1 overview
DB2 II’s federated technology enables customers to abstract a common data
model across diverse and distributed data and content sources, and to access
and manipulate them as though they were a single source.
As mentioned earlier, with the data federation capability, the federated system
acts as a virtual database with remote objects configured similar to local tables
as shown in Figure 3-3.
Figure 3-3 Data federation technology
With a federated system, you can send distributed requests to multiple data
sources within a single SQL statement; for example, ...