Title: DB2 developer's guide
Description: Learn the best techniques and tricks from expert author Craig Mullins. Apply these real-world pieces of advice, undocumented tips, solutions, projects, and techniques to your own database management system. Mullins gives you what you need to take your DB2 development to the next level. 
Written by a developer for developers, DB2 Developer's Guide, Fifth Edition provides a solutions-oriented approach to learning the foundation and capabilities of this latest version of the world's number one database management system. 
LEARN THE CONCEPTS AND BUILD THE APPLICATIONS 

Implement innovative shortcuts, tips, tricks, techniques, and development guidelines to optimize all facets of DB2 development and administration
Understand the guidelines for binding DB2 application plans and packages
Use expert advice to implement distributed DB2 applications
Connect your DB2 databases to the World Wide Web
Review exhaustive coverage of V6 topics -- including triggers, user-defined functions, stored procedure extensions, predictive governing, hiperspace bufferpools, the REBUILD utility, the DSSIZE parameter, user-defined distinct types, auxiliary tables, and more
Read implementation information and guidance for large objects to store multimedia data -- such as audio, video, and images -- in your DB2 for OS/390 databases (BLOBs, CLOBs, DBCLOBs, and DB2 extenders)
Learn how and why to use the new EXPLAIN tables - DSN_STATEMNT_TABLE and DSN_FUNCTION_TABLE
Discover how to implement a procedural DBA function to manage triggers, stored procedures, and UDFs

Subjects: Computer Technology, Database management, IBM Database 2., Nonfiction, Enterprise Applications, COMPUTERS, General, Sql (computer program language), Dbase ii (computer program), Ibm database 2 (computer system)