Learn the best techniques and tricks from expert author Craig Mullins. Apply these real-world pieces of advice, undocumented tips, solutions, projects, and techniques to your own database management system. Mullins gives you what you need to take your DB2 development to the next level.

Written by a developer for developers, DB2 Developer¿s Guide, Fifth Edition provides a solutions-oriented approach to learning the foundation and capabilities of this latest version of the world¿s number one database management system.

LEARN THE CONCEPTS AND BUILD THE APPLICATIONS

• Implement innovative shortcuts, tips, tricks, techniques, and development guidelines to optimize all facets of DB2 development and administration

• Understand the guidelines for binding DB2 application plans and packages

• Use expert advice to implement distributed DB2 applications

• Connect your DB2 databases to the World Wide Web

• Review exhaustive coverage of V6 topics¿including triggers, user-defined functions, stored procedure extensions, predictive governing, hiperspace bufferpools, the REBUILD utility, the DSSIZE parameter, user-defined distinct types, auxiliary tables, and more

• Read implementation information and guidance for large objects to store multimedia data¿such as audio, video, and images¿in your DB2 for OS/390 databases (BLOBs, CLOBs, DBCLOBs, and DB2 extenders)

• Learn how and why to use the new EXPLAIN tables - DSN_STATEMNT_TABLE and DSN_FUNCTION_TABLE

• Discover how to implement a procedural DBA function to manage triggers, stored procedures, and UDFs

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Average Amazon.com® Rating:  Based on 24 Ratings

THE BIBLE(5th edition) - 2008-03-23
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THE BIBLE - this is how I call this book. I read this particular edition for the first time in February 2005. Several months later once again, and it's always at my desk. Enormous amount of priceless information. I don't think there has ever been any other publication that managed to cover so much in just 1,000 pages.

And the book is not just "developer's guide" - the book is "The DB2 professional's guide".

It's only half a book - nothing about dynamic SQL - 2008-02-25
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This may be considered the Bible of DB2 books but it is lacking a whole Testament! If, like me, you are looking for info on dynamic and extended dynamic SQL to avoid having to read IBM manuals, you've come to the wrong place as this book says words to the effect of "If you want info on dynamic SQL, read the IBM manual" and leaves it at that. You would do better to hunt around the IBM online library and grab the manuals from there - they are actually pretty good, too.

Craig's Best DB2 Reference - 2008-02-11
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I updated my library with the new edition of this Book. As in the older versions, it will be a valuable resource used daily. Thanks!

DB2 developer's Guide (5th Edition) - 2007-10-22
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A concise & up to date guide on all things relating to DB2 by one of the top authers. Highly recommended.

db2 - 2009-06-09
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Awesome, very comprehensive. I am currently using this book to enhance my knowledge of the Explain command. This is a very thorough complete book for anyone using DB2. I have just cracked the surface and have found this book very helpful. It has been borrowed off my desk twice in the two days in has been in the office.

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