Basic UDB administration functions will be reviewed and some DB2 utilities will be used.

This hands-on workshop presents several advanced topics for application developers. SQL statements will be used to create objects for application design and development.

Design issues of referential Integrity, table check constraints, user defined data types, functions, triggers and large objects will be reviewed.

Advanced techniques for using SQL in programs and stored procedures will be applied in workshops.

Program design issues will be considered which effect concurrency, integrity and performance.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

Upon successful completion of this course the student will be able to:

• Create relational objects for application development.
• Use advanced SQL queries to access and manipulate data on DB2 tables.
• Review and use different methods of improving performance.
• Discuss how DB2 locking strategy improvie concurrency and maintain integrity
• Discuss and code Stored Procedures
• Use IMPORT, EXPORT and LOAD utilities to manipulate data.
• Understand the basic security features of DB2.