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IBM DB2 9.7 Advanced Administration Cookbook

You're reading from   IBM DB2 9.7 Advanced Administration Cookbook Over 100 recipes focused on advanced administration tasks to build and configure powerful databases with IBM DB2 book and ebook

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2012
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849683326
Length 480 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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IBM DB2 9.7 Advanced Administration Cookbook
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. DB2 Instance—Administration and Configuration FREE CHAPTER 2. Administration and Configuration of the DB2 Non-partitioned Database 3. DB2 Multipartitioned Databases—Administration and Configuration 4. Storage—Using DB2 Table Spaces 5. DB2 Buffer Pools 6. Database Objects 7. DB2 Backup and Recovery 8. DB2 High Availability 9. Problem Determination, Event Sources, and Files 10. DB2 Security 11. Connectivity and Networking 12. Monitoring 13. DB2 Tuning and Optimization 14. IBM pureScale Technology and DB2 Index

Using Configuration Advisor


The configuration advisor will help you configure the best settings for the database mission, using this server's hardware configuration. You can then accept or cancel the proposed settings.

Getting ready

Obtain as much information as possible on the database size, future growth, number of concurrent users, and so on.

How to do it...

  1. Select database Configuration Advisor....

    Go to the left pane of Control Center, and expand the databases node. Right-click on the NAV database, and select Configuration Advisor....

    A first screen will ask you to confirm whether this is the database you want to configure; then, click Next.

  2. Choose how much memory you want to allocate to this database.

    You will see a slider bar and the amount of physical memory available on the server. Allow around 300-500 MB for the operating system, or ask your system administrator how much space is needed. Then, you will have to divide the remaining space for each of the active databases. Click Next.

    In our...

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