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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
Level:  Introductory
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In this tutorial, a number of DB2 utilities were introduced to assist you in maintaining DB2 data. You have learned about:

  • Different file formats that DB2 data movement utilities can work with.
  • The EXPORT utility, which is used to extract data from a table or a view. Remember, XML data is also supported.
  • The IMPORT utility, which can be used to perform bulk insert into a table or a view. Remember, XML data is also supported.
  • The LOAD utility, which can also populate table with input data by writing formatted pages into the database directly.
  • The four phases of a load operation: load, build, delete, and index copy.
  • That a loaded table is placed in the SET INTEGRITY PENDING state if the table has constraints other than unique constraints defined.
  • The use of the SET INTEGRITY command to remove SET INTEGRITY PENDING state.
  • That, for recoverable databases, the table space for which the loaded table is defined will be placed in BACKUP PENDING state.
  • Different options and file type modifiers to customize the EXPORT, IMPORT, and LOAD operations.
  • The purpose of each data maintenance tool: RUNSTATS, REORG, REORGCHK, REBIND, and the FLUSH PACKAGE CACHE command.
  • The use of few utilities such as db2move, db2look, db2batch, the Control Center and the Design Advisor.

Good luck with the exam!

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