Chapter 20. Sharing Your DB2 Environment

It has probably struck you that installing the entire suite of DB2 9.5 on any given computer just to have access to DB2 databases might not always be the most efficient solution. In fact, the most common scenarios for database access are from client machines that talk to servers hosting a database or from web front ends that talk to middle-tier servers, and those middle-tier servers then handle all database communication. This is classic two-tier and three-tier client-server stuff.

DB2 makes these and other access approaches very easy. For most client-to-server work, a set of libraries is bundled together to form the DB2 Client. It can be installed on nearly any operating system and configured to talk to ...

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