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DB2 9 DBA exam 731 prep, Part 5: DB2 utilities

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Clara Liu (claraliu@ca.ibm.com), DB2 UDB Product Management, IBM

Clara Liu works as a DB2 UDB Product Planner at the IBM Toronto Laboratory. As a member of the DB2 product management team, she works closely with the DB2 marketing and development teams as well as customers and IBM business partners. She specializes in the area of database application development. Clara is also an active author in the DB2 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows community. She co-authored few IBM presses and one of her best sellers is Understanding DB2 - Learning Visually with Examples (Prentice Hall, 2004). You can reach Clara at claraliu@ca.ibm.com.

Summary: Learn skills that help you to properly manage your DB2 database servers. This is the fifth in a series of seven tutorials to help you prepare for the DB2® 9 for Linux®, UNIX®, and Windows™ Database Administration (Exam 731).

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Date: 30 Jun 2006
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About this series

If you are preparing to take the DB2 DBA certification exam 731, you've come to the right place -- a study hall, of sorts. This series of seven DB2 certification preparation tutorials covers the major concepts you'll need to know for the test. Do your homework here and ease the stress on test day.

About this tutorial

This tutorial introduces skills you must have to properly manage a DB2 server. This is the fifth tutorial in a series of seven tutorials to help you prepare for the DB2 V9 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows; Database Administration Certification (Exam 731).

Objectives

In this tutorial, you will learn:

How to extract data using the EXPORT utility
How to populate tables with the IMPORT and LOAD utilities
The advantages and disadvantages of using IMPORT and LOAD
When and how to use the db2move, db2look, and db2batch commands
How to use the RUNSTATS, REORG, REORGCHK, and REBIND utilities, and the FLUSH PACKAGE CACHE statement
What can be done with the DB2 Control Center
When and how to use the DB2 Design Advisor

Prerequisites

To take the DB2 9 DBA exam, you must have already passed the DB2 9 Fundamentals exam 730. We recommend that you take the DB2 Fundamentals tutorial series before starting this series.

This tutorial is one of the tools to help you prepare for Exam 731. 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 in this tutorial, you should at least have a basic knowledge of:

DB2 products
DB2 tools
DB2 instances
Databases
Database objects

System requirements

You do not need a copy of DB2 to complete this tutorial. However, you will get more out of the tutorial if you download the free trial version of IBM DB2 9 to work along with this tutorial.

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