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Informix Dynamic Server 11.50 Fundamentals Exam 555 certification preparation, Part 1: IDS planning and installation

Jeffrey S. Bohm (jbohm@us.ibm.com), Software Engineer, IBM

Jeff has been working with Relational Database Management Systems (RDBMS) products for over 16 years. He has experienced databases from every angle: as a customer, a consultant, an instructor, and a developer. He was hired on at Informix Software in 1994 and has been working with it ever since. His jobs at Informix included advanced technical support, performance tuning and troubleshooting consultant, and customer education specialist. He currently holds a Software Engineer position with the IBM Informix Dynamic Server Stress QA team.

Jeff has worked with hundreds of IDS clients, from the smallest of businesses to the largest, including multiple large retail, grocery, and telco companies. He has helped them get the most out of their IDS installs, addressing the most basic SQL needs to the most demanding performance and feature rich implementations.

Jeff was involved in writing the IDS 9 Certification exams and currently holds Certifications for IDS 5, 7, 9, 10, and 11.

Jeff also helped author several classes that are being taught in IBM's IDS and RDBMS curriculum.

Summary: This tutorial is the first in a series of tutorials designed to help you become familiar with all the different aspects of IBM® Informix® Dynamic Server (IDS) and help you get ready for the IDS Fundamentals Certification exam. This first tutorial covers the planning and installation of IDS—a great place to start to successfully understand and use IDS.

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Date: 16 Jul 2009
Level: Intermediate
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Before you start

This tutorial teaches you about planning for an IDS installation. This planning consists of key questions that need to be answered, as well as where to get information about the product, its capabilities on your machine, and any pre-setup that might be needed.

After planning for the installation comes the actual installation. This tutorial talks about the different installation options available on each operating system and continues past installation into configuration of your first IDS instance, as well as how to start and stop that instance once it is configured.

With this knowledge you should be able to plan, install, and start an instance of Informix Dynamic Server that you can then use going forward with the rest of this series of tutorials. You should also be prepared to answer the types of questions asked in Section 1 of the certification exam.

About this series

This complimentary series of nine tutorials has been developed to help you prepare for the IBM Informix Dynamic Server 11.50 Fundamentals certification exam (555). This certification exam will test your knowledge of entry-level administration of IDS 11.50, including basic SQL (Structured Query Language), how to install IDS 11.50, how to create databases and database objects, security, transaction isolation, backup and recovery procedures, and data replication technologies and purposes. These tutorials provide a solid base for each section of the exam. However, you should not rely on these tutorials as your only preparation for the exam.

About this tutorial

This tutorial is dedicated to covering the topics in Section 1 of the exam, titled "Planning and Installing IDS".

Objectives

When you finish this tutorial, you should be able to perform the following:

Explain the differences between IDS editions
Describe different database applications
Describe user setup and control, including role separation
Understand the data types available in IDS, including both built-in and extensible types
Explain and execute the different installation methods available on your platform
Explain and execute the steps to configure an IDS instance
Explain the different states of an IDS instance
Execute commands to change the state of an IDS instance

Prerequisites

This tutorial is written for up-and-coming database administrators (DBAs). Although some basic database concept knowledge may help, it is not necessarily needed.

System requirements

To complete this tutorial, you do not need a copy of IDS. However, if you have one available to use, you will definitely get more out of the tutorial. If you don't have a copy already, you can download a free trial version (see Resources).

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