A Complete Guide to DB2 Universal Database / Edition 2

by Don Chamberlin

Overview

DB2 Universal Database (UDB) supports many different types of applications, on many different kinds of data, in many different software and hardware environments.

This book provides a complete guide to DB2 UDB Version 5 in all its aspects, including the interfaces that support end users, application developers, and database administrators. It is complementary to the IBM product documentation, providing a clear and informal explanation of how the features of DB2 were intended to be used. It is an extensive revision of the author's earlier book, Using the New DB2: IBM's Object-Relational Database System.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781558604827
Publisher:	Elsevier Science
Publication date:	06/01/1998
Series:	The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems
Edition description:	2nd Revised ed.
Pages:	816
Product dimensions:	1.60(w) x 7.00(h) x 10.00(d)

About the Author

Don Chamberlin is a member of the DB2 development team at the IBM Almaden Research Center, and an adjunct professor of computer engineering at Santa Clara University. Dr. Chamberlin is co-inventor of the original SQL database language. He is an ACM Fellow, a member of the National Academy of Engineering and holds a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Stanford University.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. Basics
3. Interactive SQL
4. Static SQL
5. Query Power
6. Datatypes and Functions
7. Active Data
8. Dynamic SQL
9. Stored Procedures
10. Database Administration
Appendix A: Special Registers
Appendix B: Functions
Appendix C: Typecodes
Appendix D: System Catalog Tables
Appendix E: Syntax for Host Variable Declarations in C and C++
Appendix F: IBM Publications