About the Authors

Sanjay Kumar has been working as a database developer and architect for seven years. He has a lot of expertise in data modeling and performance tuning for business intelligence systems. He is an IBM certified advanced database administrator, application developer, and solution developer. He also has a ‘PUBLISH’ rated disclosure on data compression, and is an active member of the DB2 community.

He started his career with IBM India Software Labs as part of the DB2 development team. After working with IBM for five years, he moved to work for an investment bank as a data architect.

First of all, I would like to thank my lovely wife for supporting me throughout several months; without your support, I wouldn’t have been able to accomplish this.

I would also like to thank the Packt Publishing staff for their help and support in getting this book published. I am especially grateful to Rukhsana who helped me understand the structure of cookbooks and professional writing. I would also like to thank Zainab, Dayan, and Michelle for keeping track of the schedule and reviews. Special thanks to Lubna and Manasi for making my book look professional.

I would also like to thank the technical reviewers, Saurabh Jain and Eldho Mathew for providing excellent suggestions. Last, but not least, I would like to thank Packt Publishing for getting my first book published. It was a pleasure working with Packt Publishing.

Mohankumar Saraswatipura started his career in DB2 8.1. He has worked as a database application developer and a performance consultant in High Performance On Demand Solutions (HiPODS) for IBM Software Labs, India. He is currently working as a Lead DB2 database administrator, helping application developers on Balanced Warehouse D5100, Siebel 8, and SAP ECC implementations. He is experienced in DB2 application performance tuning and database design. He is an IBM certified application developer, InfoSphere solution designer, XML solution developer, and Advanced DB2 database administrator.

He is an active member of IDUG India and an IBM Information Champion. Mohan completed his Master’s of Technology in computer science in 2004, and Executive MBA from IIMC in 2007.

Mohan has also worked on the following articles:

• DB2 performance tuning using the DB2 Configuration Advisor, which was published in IBM’s developerWorks. You can find this article at: http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/db2/library/techarticle/dm-0605shastry/

• How to go hand-in-hand with DB2 and Informix, which was published in IBM’s developerWorks. You can find this article at: http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/db2/library/techarticle/dm-0701shastry/index.html

• What’s new in IDS 11, which was published in IBM’s developerWorks. You can find this article at: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/data/library/techarticle/dm-0705saraswatipura/

• Understanding the advantages of DB2 9 autonomic computing features, which was published in IBM's developerWorks. You can find this article at: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/db2/library/techarticle/dm-0709saraswatipura/

• Effectively use DB2 data movement utilities in a data warehouse environment, which was published in IBM's developerWorks. You can find this article at: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/data/library/techarticle/dm-1111movementdatawarehouse/index.html

I work for an incredible organization, with brilliant people, where I’ve had opportunities to learn and grow. Thanks to Nelson Coish, and the higher management for helping me all the way. Thanks also to my wife, Dr. Nirmala Kammar, for being so kind when things were needed. Thanks, of course, to all at Packt Publishing group, especially Rukhsana, Zainab, Dayan, Michelle, Lubna, and Manasi. It was a great experience working with you all.