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IBM DB2 9.7 Advanced Application Developer Cookbook

You're reading from  IBM DB2 9.7 Advanced Application Developer Cookbook

Product type Book
Published in Mar 2012
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849683968
Pages 442 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters close

IBM DB2 9.7 Advanced Application Developer Cookbook
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Application Development Enhancements in DB2 9.7 2. DB2 Application Techniques 3. General Application Design 4. Procedures, Functions, Triggers, and Modules 5. Designing Java Applications 6. DB2 9.7 Application Enablement 7. Advanced DB2 Application Features and Practices 8. Preparing and Monitoring Database Applications 9. Advanced Performance Tuning Tips

Interpreting db2exfmt output


In the previous recipe, we discussed how to use different explain utilities. db2exfmt is the most commonly-used utility for troubleshooting a performance problem. This utility gives very detailed information captured in EXPLAIN tables in the form of an ASCII text report. This report contains textual information, as well as the access plan in a graphical format, which is extremely useful for query analysis. In this recipe, we will discuss how to interpret the results from the db2exfmt utility.

How to do it...

As mentioned in the previous recipe, the output of the db2exfmt tool contains very detailed information about the query execution plan. In this section, we will discuss how to interpret each section.

  1. 1. Verifying the database information: The top section of the db2exfmt output contains DB2 version information, and the time when the db2exfmt tool was run.

  2. 2. Check the database context area: This section contains the configuration parameter values that have...

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