Overview

 

Get up to speed quickly on the new features in IBM DB2 9

In this book, the IBM expert authors provide you with comprehensive technical details and real-world business uses for all of the exciting new features in the current release of DB2 9. You’ll learn about the capabilities found in pureXML™ as well as administrative enhancements in areas such as self management, high availability, and security. Also covered are features for the developer from a Ruby on Rails toolkit to the Developer Workbench and enhanced .NET developer support.

 

Table of contents

Part I. XML in DB2 New Hybrid Storage Engine
Ch. 1. What is XML?
Ch. 2. When Do I use pureXML?
Ch. 3. pureXML: The DB2 XML Database
Ch. 4. Tuning XML Performance
Part II. Autonomics and Manageability
Ch. 5. Up and Running Enhancements
Ch. 6. Self Tuning MemoryManager
Ch. 7. Automated Storage
Ch. 8. Other Autonomic and Manageability Enhancements
Part III. Application Development
Ch. 9. Rational Data Architect
Ch. 10. DB2 and the .NET Developer
Ch. 11. DB2 and the Java Developer
Ch. 12. DB2 and the Scripting Languages Developer
Ch. 13. DB2 and the XML Developer
Ch. 14. DB2 Developer Workbench
Ch. 15. Other Application Development Topics
Part IV. Security Enhancements
Ch. 16. Label-Based Access Control
Ch. 17. Additional Security Enhancements
Part V. SHARP Enhancements
Ch. 18. Larger Table Space Support
Ch. 19. Larger Object Support
Ch. 20. Raw Compression
Ch. 21. High-Availability Enhancements
Ch. 22. Additional SHARP Enhancements
Index

Biographical note

Paul C. Zikopoulos, BA, MBA, is on the IBM Database Competitive Technology team. He is the coauthor of DB2:The Complete Reference.George Baklarz, B Math, M Sc, is a senior manager in the DB2 Worldwide Pre-sales Support Group.Leon Katsnelson works in the IBM Toronto Lab where he manages a team of IBM DB2 UDB product managers.Chris Eaton is the senior product manager for DB2 Universal Database.