DB2 Developer's Guide, 5th edition

[ddiamond]

Does anyone have DB2 Developer's Guide by Craig S. Mullins? Do you recommend it?

 

[hopgal]

I have it, and I think it is good if you are a DBA, but not necessarily for Java or C++ Programmers who write code to connect to DB2. It has a lot of information I DON'T need, but not some things that I DO, need. For example, it will explain the concept of pooled data sources but does not tell you how to create them, connect to them in your code, etc.

It has a LOT of info regarding what has changed with UDB Version 8.

I use it mostly for looking up functions, syntax, and the error codes (on the front inside flap) mostly. I'm sure there are better references for programmers, not sure what.

 

[ddiamond]

I'm both a programmer and a DBA. Of the 2 tasks, I think programming is the easy part. We have an oracle database, and we are migrating to a DB2 database. I have set up a test db2 database to play with, and I am constantly running into check pending states and database corruption. And we only have a couple of users hitting it. Do you think this book would help me figure out how to make DB2 more stable? There must be something I am doing wrong, because if DB2 was really this unstable, no one would be able to use it in a production environment.

 

[gregsimpson]

ddiamond,

I have the 4th edition not the 5th. However the 4th Edition is predominantly mainframe and not other platforms. What platfrom are you on, I suspect UNIX, if so there's probably better books for you which IBM have produced.

Greg

 

[ddiamond]

Greg,

Thanks for the input. Our test server is windows. Our production server will be unix, but we haven't pruchased it yet. We do have an AS400, but someone administers that, so it is not my problem.

- Dan