Db2 for z/OS: Database Administration - Advanced Topics Eğitimi

• appreciate the latest on-line schema enhancements
• understand the concept and usage of versioning and pending definition changes
• appreciate the enhanced facilities to manage partitioned data
• identify the need for and definition of distinct data types, user-defined functions, triggers and stored procedures
• describe how large object and XML data is defined and held
• understand the concept and use of in-line LOB data
• understand the recovery implications of LOB and XML data
• appreciate the need for and use of specialised table types including materialized query, clone, temporal and archive tables
• understand how row and column level security may be achieved using multi-level security, row permissions and column masks.

Enhanced ALTER statement; altering data types; altering index keys; altering tablespace types and attributes; restrictions on altering objects; impact of altering objects; pending definition changes; versioning; reclaiming versions.

Index defined vs table defined partitioning; adding new partitions; rotating partitions; changing partition boundaries; rebalancing partitions; impact on user tasks.

Need for distinct types; defining and using distinct types; distinct type security.

Need for user defined functions (UDFs); sourced, external and SQL functions; defining UDFs; using UDFs in SQL; UDF security.

Use of triggers; before, after and 'instead of' triggers; defining triggers; trigger cascading.

Need for stored procedures; stored procedure environment; external procedures; native SQL procedures; coding and defining stored procedures; stored procedure security.

Large object data; relationship between base and auxiliary tables; defining large objects; large object locking considerations; large object logging and recovery considerations; in-line LOB data; XML data support; XML data model; XML data storage; Indexing XML data; XML data backup & recovery considerations.

Materialized Query Tables (MQTs); defining MQTs; converting existing tables; populating MQTs; Automatic Query Rewrite (AQR); defining and using clone tables; clone table limitations; exchanging data with clone table; defining and using temporal tables; defining and using archive tables.

Multi-level security concepts; security labels; row-level security granularity; effect of multi-level security on data manipulation language statements; row and column access control; row permissions; column masks.

Hands-on exercises complement the course material to assist in full understanding of the subject matter.