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Summary: Very Good book for fundamental certification exam
Review: A little experience in DB2 and this book helps you clear the test DB2 fundamental certifications exam. When I read the book completely, I thought the book should have more questions but after writing the exam, I felt those questions are more than sufficient
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Summary: Hema
Review: A very good book for clearing the certification. Lot of explanation in this book is written keeping in view of certification. But it is a very good book for even interviews also. Prior experience in DB2 would be a plus to enhance your understanding. The chapter on locks is very good and you would not forget the different locking scenarios after reading this book. I have cleared the exam with 80%. Be careful while answering the queries in exam, becoz most of the questions look alike as in the book but answer will not be the same as there is a slight difference in framing the question.
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Summary: Go to the source and learn it the IBM way.
Review: Bought the book on a Sunday and read it cover to cover in 6 hours. Make sure that you do the quiz at the end of each chapter. It is important to understand the reasoning behind the answer. This book reads easily and covers all the material on the test. Questions on the actual test are very similar to the type of questions in the book. The book also points you to the location for free practice test.
This book helped me pass the test with 95% (you need 61% to pass) a day later.
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Summary: Great Book
Review: If you are planning on taking exam 700 this is the book for you. I took the exam today and to me it feels like the author wrote the actual exam. The practice tests on the book are very similar to the real test, the only thing to watch out are for are that the actual question is a little bit of a variation from your practice test for example on the practice test the VIEW is created using WITH CHECK OPTION but on the real test that option is not there. The only reason I give this book a rating of 4 is that I still believe that couple of review questions on the text book is still wrong. Be sure to take the practice tests on the IBM website, trust me it will help you...
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Summary: Excellent Reference for DB2 Fundamentals!!
Review: Read bind to bind to know some useful hints on DB2 fundamentals. It's very concise with useful TIPS. One of those essential books that can be on your table, especially if you are preparing for Exam-700.
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Summary: Good Book for Exam 700
Review: The practise question at the end of every chapter is very useful and will let us know how strong are we ,in that subject. Its complexity is same like in real exam. Given short and precise, this book is good. CD, which u get with DB2 FOR DUMMIES book will be very useful for 700 exam.
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Summary: A very good book for exam 700
Review: This book helped me to prepare for the exam well but I felt this book should have had some more information about UDT /UDF .
Other than that this book was an excellent choice to prepare for exam 700
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Summary: 700 Exam
Review: This book is a very useful study guide and the practice questions given at the end of the chapters are really good. It will also be useful to give practice tests which comes in a CD-ROM alongwith "DB2 Cerfication for Dummies" book. Make sure to give practice tests on IBM website too.
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Summary: 700 Exam
Review: This book is a very useful study guide and the practice questions given at the end of the chapters are really good. It will also be useful to give practice tests which comes in a CD-ROM alongwith "DB2 Cerfication for Dummies" book. Make sure to give practice tests on IBM website too.
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Summary: All You Need
Review: With any large commercial software package that has books devoted to teaching it, invariably the vendor will offer an exam. The vendor's stamp of approval on a successful passing grade has a built-in cachet. Well IBM's dB2 is one of the oldest major packages, and it certainly has exams. As is typical in these things, IBM also offers a book on exam preparation. Naturally comprehensive. Has test questions AND answers. It does not each the theory of relational databases. You need to be clear on this. Now it certainly shows the many SQL options that IBM has implemented in dB2. But here also, you need to know that the book does not really teach SQL either. You are expected to already know SQL and have enough familiarity with dB2. The intent here is to cover the topics that will be in the exam, and do this well enough so that you can find any gaps in your knowledge and remedy these. The focus is strictly utilitarian. Lest you think this is too restrictive, let me note that it is often so with such books, and not just by IBM. You might be encouraged to know that the book covers just the introductory certification. More advanced exams are outside its purview. For example, in a companion IBM text, "DB2 Version 8 - The Official Guide" by Zikopoulous et al, you can find more difficult topics to master. But if you are time constrained, the Study Guide will be better value.
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