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DB2 10.1 DBA for Linux, UNIX, and Windows certification exam 611 prep, Part 3: Business rules implementation

Ramalingam Srinivasan (ramalsri@in.ibm.com), DB2 LUW Consultant, IBM

Ramalingam Srinivasan works as a DB2 LUW consultant at the IBM India Software Lab. As a member of the IM Technology Ecosystem team, he works closely with the DB2 marketing and development teams, as well as customers and IBM business partners. He specializes in migrating applications from competitive databases to IBM DB2 LUW. In his prior engagements, he has worked in areas like data modeling, application development with DB2 SQL PL, Oracle PL/SQL, Pro*C, and Forms and Reports.

Summary: This tutorial is designed to introduce you to the skills to implement business rules in a DB2® database environment. This tutorial will also help you prepare for Section 3 of the DB2® 10.1 DBA for Linux®, UNIX®, and Windows® certification exam 611.

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Date: 08 Nov 2012
Level: Intermediate
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Before you start

About this series

Thinking about taking the DB2 DBA certification exam 611? If so, you've come to the right place. This "DB2 10.1 DBA for Linux, UNIX, and Windows certification exam 611 prep" series is designed to cover all the topics you need to know before you sit down to take the DB2 10.1 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows DBA certification exam (exam 611). Even if you're not planning to seek certification right away, the information presented in this set of tutorials can help you learn about many of the new features and functionality available in DB2 10.1 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows.

About this tutorial

Eight and one-half percent of the DB2 10.1 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows DBA certification exam (exam 611) is designed to test your knowledge of how and when to use mechanisms like constraints, views, and triggers to move the logic used to enforce business rules from application to a database. The questions that make up this portion of the exam are designed to evaluate the following:

Your ability to create constraints on tables.
Your ability to create views WITH CHECK OPTION.
Your ability to create and use triggers.
Your ability to use the SET INTEGRITY command.

This tutorial is designed to introduce the various constraints available with DB2 and show you how to use these constraints, along with views and triggers, to enforce business rules. This tutorial is the third in a series of eight tutorials you can use to prepare for exam 611.

Objectives

After completing this tutorial, you should be able to:

Demonstrate the ability to create constraints on tables.
Demonstrate the ability to create views WITH CHECK OPTION.
Demonstrate the ability to create and use triggers.
Demonstrate the ability to use the SET INTEGRITY command.

Prerequisites

To take the DB2 10.1 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows DBA certification exam (exam 611), you must have already passed the DB2 10.1 Fundamentals exam (exam 610) or the DB2 9 Fundamentals exam (exam 730).

This tutorial is one tool to help you prepare for exam 611. You should also review the resources at the end of this tutorial for more information about DB2 utilities (see Resources). Although not all materials discussed in the Fundamentals tutorial series are required to understand the concepts described here, you should at least have a basic knowledge of:

DB2 products
DB2 tools
DB2 instances
Databases
Database objects

System requirements

You do not need DB2 to complete this tutorial. However, you will get more out of it if you download the free trial version of IBM DB2 10.1 to work along with this tutorial.

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