These Best Practices present advice on the most optimal ways you can use DB2 to satisfy key business data processing needs. Each Best Practice paper is designed to provide practical guidance for the most common DB2 9 product configurations. By applying these recommendations, you may improve the value of your DB2 data servers and align yourself with IBM's technical direction for DB2.
Database Storage
Discover best practices for database storage including guidelines and recommendations for spindles and logical unit numbers (LUNs), stripe and striping, transaction logs and data, file systems versus raw devices, Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID) devices, registry variable and configuration parameter settings, and automatic storage.
Physical Database Design
Learn about all of the design features that relate to the physical structure of the database such as datatype selection, table normalization and denormalization, indexes, materialized views, data clustering, multidimensional data clustering, table (range) partitioning, and database (hash) partitioning.
Information Modeling with Rational Data Architect Version 7
Discover the best practices for information modeling based on the experiences of a team of data modelers using Rational Data Architect with DB2. Rational Data Architect is an information modeling tool that can help you establish and use standards in design based on proven design methodologies to create highly reusable models that satisfy business requirements. See Downloads for the sample file associated with this paper.
Data Life Cycle Management
See the best practices to design and implement scalable solutions that facilitate the continuous feed or roll-in and roll-out of data, with minimal interruption of data access.
Minimizing Planned Outages
View the best practices for minimizing, or even potentially eliminating, planned database outages. Planned outages can include activities such as routine database maintenance activities or upgrades to your database environment.
DB2 High Availability Disaster Recovery
Get recommendations for setting up and maintaining a DB2 High Availability Disaster Recovery (HADR) environment in ways that balance the protection HADR provides with performance and cost. This best practice explains optimizing for fast failovers, tuning parameters for network and logging performance, and understanding table reorganization methods and load operations in an HADR environment.
IBM Data Server Security
This Best Practices roadmap details how to protect data servers against the common data security threats, some uncommon threats, and useful countermeasures for these threats.
Deploying IBM DB2 Products
Discover best practices for deploying the DB2 9.5 family of products on Linux, UNIX, and Windows platforms across multiple computers quickly, easily, and consistently.
Writing and Tuning Queries for Optimal Performance
Learn best practices for minimizing the impact of SQL statements on DB2 database performance. This paper focuses on good fundamental writing and tuning practices that can be widely applied to help improve DB2 database performance.
Tuning and Monitoring Database System Performance
See best practices for the performance evolution of a Data Server. From important principles of initial hardware and software configuration to monitoring techniques that help you understand system performance under both operational and troubleshooting conditions. For troubleshooting performance problems, this paper provide a step-wise, methodical method for determining the problem.
DB2 Workload Management
DB2 Workload Management helps prevent, detect, and resolve conflicting resource requirements on a DB2 data server based on defined business objectives. This paper details the current best practices for DB2 workload manager.
Deep Compression
Compression may reduce the storage requirements for your data server and improve performance. These Best Practices explain how to best use data row compression and table compression in the context of a larger storage strategy.
Managing XML Data
Get principles and guidelines for using DB2 pureXML™ to solve business problems effectively and to achieve high performance when managing XML data in enterprise applications - illustrated with a real-world example easily adapted to other types of XML applications. See Downloads for the files associated with this paper.
Improving Data Server Utilization and Management through Virtualization
Discover best practices for deploying DB2 9 with the IBM System p™ virtualization technology. Select the right blend of virtualization features and their configurations to achieve desired business goals, while improving the utilization of IT resources.
