Tri-State Db2 Technology Exchange
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Session title: Db2’s External Tables: A Deep Dive
Session abstract: Take a deep dive into the world of external tables. This talk will introduce the concept of an external table within Db2. How they contrast to existing table types and when to leverage external tables.
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Session title: Monitoring and Optimizing Db2 Prefetching and I/O
Session abstract: I/O is a fundamental characteristic of Db2 performance. It is not only important to understand I/O access patterns via monitoring, but also to be able to tune Db2 prefetching and I/O. Optimizing Db2 I/O is critical both for row- and column-organized table performance. Continue reading “Monitoring and Optimizing Db2 Prefetching and I/O”
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Session title: Starter Guide to Data Sharing Monitoring and Tuning
Session abstract: This session will introduce and discuss: Firstly, global locking and the Db2 LOCK1 structure, and global lock contention monitoring and tuning; Secondly, group buffer pools, GBP reads, GBP writes, GBP castout, and GBP monitoring and tuning. Continue reading “Starter Guide to Data Sharing Monitoring and Tuning”
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Session title: JC’s Greatest Hits, War Stories and Best Practices 2020
Session abstract: This session will introduce and discuss: recommended best practice; lessons to be learned from the good, bad and ugly experiences from other installations; answers to important, frequent or difficult questions. Specific topics to be included: Continue reading “JC’s Greatest Hits, War Stories and Best Practices 2020”
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Session title: Db2 Turbo Statistics – How to Accelerate Your Query Performance
Session abstract: Catalog statistics are what fuel the Db2 optimizer, and its tank is always full because of automatic statistics collection. However there are some extra buttons on the dashboard that you can use to enable even better statistics to really boost your query performance.
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Session title: What is Db2 Graph
Session abstract: To meet the challenge of analyzing rapidly growing graph and network data, many different graph database implementations are emerging. Although they handle graph-only queries well, they fall short for real-life applications.