Verifying a partitioned database environment installation (Windows)

To verify that your Db2® database server installation was successful, you will create a sample database and run SQL commands to retrieve sample data and to verify that the data has been distributed to all participating database partition servers.

To create the SAMPLE database:

1. Log on to the primary computer (ServerA) as user with SYSADM authority.
2. Enter the db2sampl command to create the SAMPLE database.

   This command can take a few minutes to process. When the command prompt returns, the process is complete.

   The SAMPLE database is automatically cataloged with the database alias SAMPLE when it is created.

3. Start the database manager by entering the db2start command.
4. Enter the following Db2 commands from a Db2 command window to connect to the SAMPLE database, retrieve a list of all the employees that work in department 20:

      db2 connect to sample
      db2 "select * from staff where dept = 20"
   

5. To verify that data has been distributed across database partition servers, enter the following commands from a Db2 command window:

     db2 "select distinct dbpartitionnum(empno) from employee"

   The output will list the database partitions used by the employee table. The specific output will depend on the number of database partitions in the database and the number of database partitions in the database partition group that is used by the table space where the employee table was created.