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DB2 9 Fundamentals exam 730 prep, Part 5: Working with DB2 objects

Hana Curtis (hcurtis@ca.ibm.com), IBM Certified Solutions Expert, IBM
Hana Curtis is a lead member of the DB2 Functional Verification Testing team at the IBM Toronto Software Laboratory. Previously, she was a member of the DB2 Integration team working with DB2 and WebSphere, a database consultant working with IBM Business Partners to enable their applications to DB2, and a member of the DB2 development team. Hana is one of the authors of the book: DB2 SQL Procedural Language for Linux, UNIX, and Windows (Prentice Hall, 2003). She holds the following certifications: IBM Certified Solutions Expert: DB2 UDB V8.1 Database Administration for UNIX, Windows, and OS/2, IBM Certified Solutions Expert: DB2 UDB V8.1 Family Application Development, IBM Certified Specialist: DB2 V8.1 User.

Summary:  This tutorial discusses data types, tables, views, and indexes as defined by DB2 9. It explains the features of these objects, how to create and manipulate them using Structured Query Language (SQL), and how they can be used in an application. This tutorial is the fifth in a series of seven tutorials that you can use to help prepare for DB2 9 Fundamentals Certification exam 730.

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Date:  24 Jul 2006
Level:  Introductory
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This tutorial was designed to familiarize you with the features of data types, tables, constraints, views, and indexes defined in DB2. It also showed you how to use the CREATE, ALTER, and DROP statements to manage these objects. Examples were provided so you could try your hand at using these objects in a controlled setting.

Part 6: Data concurrency, introduces you to the concept of data consistency and to the various mechanisms that are used by DB2 to maintain database consistency in both single- and multi-user environments.

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