G527 DB2: Greatest Hits - Topical Outline

DB2: Greatest Hits - Topical Outline

Introduction

The Big picture

64-bit virtual storage

Unicode

Hardware exploitation - zIIPs

XML

Migration bases

The Course Database

Computer Exercise: Course Setup

SQL changes - 1

Limit changes

DISTINCT and NOT DISTINCT

Scalar Fullselect

GROUP BY

FETCH FIRST with ORDER BY

EXCEPT and INTERSECT

ORDER BY and FETCH FIRST in subselect

TRUNCATE TABLE

Common Table expressions

Recursive SQL

Computer Exercise: Exploring New SQL - 1

SQL changes - 2

New built-in functions

OLAP-related functions

MERGE

SELECT FROM INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE/MERGE

Computer Exercise: Exploring New SQL - 2

Scrollable cursors

INSENSITIVE

SENSITIVE STATIC

SENSITIVE DYNAMIC cursors

ASENSITIVE cursors

FETCH syntax

Update and locking

Multiple Row SQL

Rowsets

FETCH/INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE

Multi-row INSERT within SELECT

GET DIAGNOSTICS

FETCH CONTINUE

LOB file reference variables

Bind Enhancements: REOPT AUTO and SWITCH

SKIP LOCKED DATA clause

Computer Exercise: Application Programming Environment Enhancements

Native SQL stored procedures

CREATE / ALTER PROCEDURE

Versioning

Computer Exercise: Native SQL Stored Procedures

Data Base Administration Enhancements

Sequence objects

Clone tables

Row change timestamps

New data types: BIGINT, BINARY, VARBINARY, DECFLOAT

Random indexes

Indexing on expressions

Computer Exercise: Data Base Administration Enhancements

XML

XML overview

XML and DB2

XML and SQL

XML in application programs

XML Indexing

Computer Exercise: Exploring XML in DB2

G527 / 3 Days

Materials version: V1.x

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