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Advanced DBA Certification Guide and Reference for DB2 Universal Database v8 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows
By Dwaine R. Snow, Thomas X. Phan
Publisher	: Prentice Hall PTR
Pub Date	: July 07, 2003
ISBN	: 0-13-046388-4
Pages	: 800

Now, there's a definitive guide to advanced DB2 UDB database administration that also delivers all the depth and insight you need to prepare for the tough new IBM exam. Straight from the DB2 experts at IBM, this book offers systematic and authoritative coverage of every exam objective and will serve as a reference after you have passed the test.

For the first time, this book brings together IBM best practices, techniques, tips, guidelines, and rules of thumb for virtually every aspect of advanced DB2 UDB v8 database administration-including all this and more:

• Ability to design, create, and manage table spaces

• Ability to design, create, and manage buffer pools

• When and how to exploit parallelism in DB2 UDB

• Configuring federated database access

• Designing and implementing a backup and recovery strategy

• Ability to implement a standby database

• Monitoring and tuning DB2

• Using and managing tables with multidimensional clustering

• Designing and configuring multiple database partitions

• Implementing authentication and encryption on a large scale

• Leveraging parallelism and symmetric multiprocessing

• Preparing for and executing recovery in an enterprise environment

• Rapid recovery in the event of table space or table level disasters

• Effective monitoring and problem determination

• Maximizing performance and scalability