Featured Title — January 2004

Featured Title:
DB2 for Solaris: The Official Guide
by Tom Bauch and Mark Wilding

DB2 for Solaris: The Official Guide offers guidance on the key decisions and challenges of installing, running, and optimizing DB2 on the Solaris platform. The book presents insights, best practices, techniques, tips, guidelines, and rules of thumb on these topics:

• Installing DB2 on Solaris
• Working with disks, file systems, memory, and CPUs
• Using DB2's graphical administration and monitoring tools
• Optimizing database and operating system performance
• Implementing clusters with Veritas Cluster Server and Sun Cluster
• Managing client/server communications and TCP/IP networking
• Leveraging lightweight OS semaphores, kernelized asynchronous I/O, SMP processor sets, intimate shared memory, and other advanced Solaris features
• Using inter-partition parallelism with DB2 UDB Enterprise Server Edition's data partitioning feature.

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