Taking Advantage of Relational Technology Part 2

Avoid Inappropriate Tablespace Scans

There are many DB2 access paths available. The most expensive of these is a tablespace scan because it causes DB2 to scan all the entries of a table to retrieve the rows desired by the application. Within most of the system and application performance reviews done at one recent client’s review, . . . → Read More: Taking Advantage of Relational Technology Part 2

DB2 Checkpoints and Too Many Indexes

Last time I wrote about some of the application performance aspects. This week we’ll delve deeper into DB2 Checkpoint aspects for recoveries and index definitions over your busiest tables and their potential performance impact.

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DB2 Case Study Introduction: DB2 Performance and Throughput

Every client is different and working in a variety of different environments helps me understand different systems, applications and DB2 database design performance aspects and what works and doesn’t work. Over the next few weeks, I’ll be highlighting for you how to improve the DB2 performance . . . → Read More: DB2 Case Study Introduction: DB2 Performance and Throughput