The improvements in DB2 10 technology are definitely making building performance into business intelligence systems easier. The additional SQL data warehousing extensions such as Rank, Dense_Rank, and Materialized Query tables (MQTs) were great when they came out in DB2 8 and DB2 9. DB2 10 takes another giant step.
Use a DB2 10 Temporal Table
DB2 10 now provides Temporal and Bi-Temporal database tables along with the OLAP capabilities of moving sums, averages and aggregates. These additional improvements within the DB2 engine, SQL and table designs provide faster result set capabilities for overall business intelligence performance. Also the DB2 10 enhancements with the new scalar and table functions can provide performance for all types of OLAP activities.
Since these business intelligence performance features are built directly into the DB2 10 engine, temporal designs, moving sums, averages and aggregates will become standard calculations and properties for all reporting requirements. Calculations will be done using different groups of temporal time periods or location-based data for product sales, store location or other common data warehouse criteria. Data warehousing performance will improve dramatically as DB2 data warehouse applications are quickly designed to leverage these common built-in features and functions for all types of business intelligence performance requirements.
By using a temporal data warehouse design along with partitioning, time frame or common table design, the standard OLAP functions can provide quick calculations for complex or simple data warehouse reporting requirements. Also given the improvements within SQL, moving sums, averages and aggregates can be included in common table expressions, SQL SELECT lists or ORDER BY statements to satisfy any application requirements.
Leverage DB2 10 for Business Intelligence Performance
Business Intelligence performance always improves when the designers and developers leverage the DB2 engine built in functions. Use temporal tables, bi-temporal, moving sums, averages and aggregates so your business intelligence performance will only get better with DB2 10.
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