DB2 v9 Migration

Course Overview

The course is designed to instruct those delegates who are fairly confident in designing, writing and testing DB2 applications and now need to know the facilities that are available to them with the new DB2 9 release.

Audience

IT personnel who need to know the new DB2 9 facilities and how they might affect them. The emphasis on certain subjects will be adjusted to reflect the audience; for example if the delegates on the course are all applications programmers then less in depth teaching will begiven for the UTILITIES part of the course!

Prerequisites

Those attending the course should be confident in writing DB2 applications in previous releases of DB2

Course Outline

Introduction Environment/System Changes

• XML
• Tablespace types
• DECFLOAT
• BIGINT
• VARBINARY
• Simple tablespaces

SQL

• INTERSECT
• EXCEPT
• MERGE
• TRUNCATE
• SELECT from DELETE, UPDATE and MERGE

PERFORMANCE

• INSERT
• Logging
• Index page changes
• Append options
• Not logged tablespaces
• Optimization changes
• Optimization support center
• Variable length

OTHER

• Online schema changes (Database Definition On Demand)
• Online table space reorganization
• Table cloning
• Instead of triggers
• Stored procedure changes
• OLAP changes
• Security changes
• Utility changes