Section 15.12. Unique Database Requirements

15.12. Unique Database Requirements

The unique backup and recovery requirements of each of the databases covered in this book could generate an entire book for each product. What, then, is the purpose of these chapters? That's simpleto break down, once and for all, the "Berlin Wall" that exists between DBAs and SAs. Until now, if you wanted to learn about how to back up DB2, you had to buy a whole book on DB2. One of the problems with books like these is that they assume you are a DBA! The authors assume that you understand tablespaces and transaction logs and rollbacks. The result is that you get only half the story. This book, on the other hand, assumes only that you have read this and other chapters in the book.

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