This practical cookbook provides step-by-step instructions to build and configure powerful databases, with scalability, safety and reliability features, using industry standard best practices.


This book will walk you through all the important aspects of administration. You will learn to set up production capable environments with multi-partitioned databases and make the best use of hardware resources for maximum performance.
With this guide you can master the different ways to implement strong databases with a High Availability architecture.


Learn to make best use of scalability with multi-partitioned databases
- Get to grips with advanced technological breakthroughs with RBAC, and pureScale technology
- Sharpen your troubleshooting skills
- Design and implement the best backup strategy
- Master the new exciting features added to the DB2 9.7 version
- Get step-by-step instructions to tune and optimize DB2 to achieve best performance
- Understand the database objects and their integration