DB2 UDB v8 Handbook for Windows and UNIX/Linux

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Summary: Top book on how to use and tune new v8 features
Review: This book is just great for helping short handed DBAs quickly get up to speed on V8. The chapter on Type-2 indexes clearly points out how to implement and monitor them, along with the perforomance benefits. The Chapter on tuning cfg parameters provides recommendations based on actual experience, the chapter on tuning buffer pools, sorts, and SQL are invaluable for me to be able to support my production databases. The chapter on utilities is up to date with all the added V8 features, along with tips on what to use and exploit. Well written by a real guru.

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Summary: One of a Kind
Review: This book is really well organized. The section on logical and physical design was a good review for me. It reminded me how important a good design is to a successful database implementation. The SQL Tuning, Buffer pool tuning, and DB and DBM CFG tuning chapters have helped me take care of my problem databases and suboptimal SQL.

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Summary: Written by top DB2 GURU in the Industry, and You Can Tell!
Review: This book is written by a DBA for DBAs. Their is no hemming and hawing in this book when it comes to actual tuning recommendations. The author has done a good job at imparting his knowledge to us. This is knowledge he has won in the trenches on our behalf. Im glad Phil included Chapte3 on Logical and physical design. I can use it to show my manager how it should be done. The chapters on Type-2 indexes, tuning bufferpools, including the new block-based bufferpools, the Chapter on SQL tuning makes it very clear on how to identify, tune SQL, or create indexes to eliminates all those sorts that I dind in my Peoplesoft and Siebel systems running rampant. This book tells you about all the new features in V8 and tell's you how to use them. It is a good mixture between V8 enhancements and contains extensive tuning techniques, methodologies, and good examples where needed. You need to have this book to tune-up your databases. I also like Snow's book for the day to day admin tasks. I can't wait for the second edition of this book to come it, cause you know it will just build on the wealth of information provided in the 1st edition.

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Summary: Written by top DB2 GURU in the Industry, and You Can Tell!
Review: This book is written by a DBA for DBAs. Their is no hemming and hawing in this book when it comes to actual tuning recommendations. The author has done a good job at imparting his knowledge to us. This is knowledge he has won in the trenches on our behalf. Im glad Phil included Chapte3 on Logical and physical design. I can use it to show my manager how it should be done. The chapters on Type-2 indexes, tuning bufferpools, including the new block-based bufferpools, the Chapter on SQL tuning makes it very clear on how to identify, tune SQL, or create indexes to eliminates all those sorts that I dind in my Peoplesoft and Siebel systems running rampant. This book tells you about all the new features in V8 and tell's you how to use them. It is a good mixture between V8 enhancements and contains extensive tuning techniques, methodologies, and good examples where needed. You need to have this book to tune-up your databases. I also like Snow's book for the day to day admin tasks. I can't wait for the second edition of this book to come it, cause you know it will just build on the wealth of information provided in the 1st edition.

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Summary: Excellent Book
Review: This book is written by a real expert. It is the definitive tuning guide for DB2 for Linux, UNIX and Widnows. The chapters on tuning bufferpools and sorts are the first of their kind. I use this book and Snow's to support my databases on a daily basis.