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Nickname column options for best performance
The NUMERIC_STRING and VARCHAR_NO_TRAILING_BLANKS and
nickname column options impact the decisions made by the DB2 optimizer and
thereby query performance:
NUMERIC_STRING
This nickname column option applies to character data types and is
applicable to those data sources for which the COLLATING_SEQUENCE
server option is set to N.
The federated system does
not push down any operations that can produce
different results due to differences in collating sequences between the
federated database and the remote data source. Suppose that a d ...