Featured Title — September 2003

Featured Title:
Teach Yourself DB2 Universal Database in 21 Days
by Susan Visser and Bill Wong



A practical, hands-on approach to learning to use DB2 UDB, Teach Yourself DB2 Universal Database in 21 Days provides scenarios and step-by-step examples to help readers build skills easily. The book focuses on the most commonly used tasks and is designed for anyone learning about databases for the first time or changing careers from another database product or platform. The book, which includes a trial-version of DB2 UDB v.8.1, walks readers through the steps to create a library database to store information about a CD collection, including:

• Installing, configuring, and setting up DB2
• Designing a database, including normalizing data and choosing a primary key
• Using wizards to create the database, tables, and relationships between the tables
• Adding data to the tables using SQL or by loading or importing from other sources
• Accessing data using SQL, Java, or other applications
• Setting up security
• Automating and scheduling tasks
• Backing up and restoring
• Tuning performance parameters
• Solving problems.

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