Part I. SQL Techniques, Tips, and Tricks

Part I of this book offers up a bag of SQL techniques and tricks that will help you squeeze every bit of performance and effectiveness out of the SQL code in your DB2® applications.

Chapter 1, “The Magic Words,” introduces SQL and provides tools for the SQL practitioner. Chapter 2, “Data Manipulation Guidelines,” provides a collection of simple suggestions to speed data access and modification; it suggests tips for both simple and complex SQL statements.

Chapters 3 and 4 cover DB2 functions and how they can be used to convert data from one state to another. Chapter 3, “Using DB2 Functions,” covers the built-in functions, and Chapter 4, “Using DB2 User-Defined Functions and Data Types,” discusses how to ...

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