Part VIII. Distributed DB2
The final section of this book addresses using DB2 in a distributed environment.
DB2 can function as a distributed database management system (DDBMS). A DDBMS is a collection of data spread across multiple computers, and possibly, multiple geographic locations. The distributed components communicate with one another by means of a network. In addition, the DDBMS controls data access and modification requests across the network. Indeed, users of a distributed database should not be aware that the data is distributed to several disparate locations.
The implementation of a distributed database is only one phase of implementing distributed processing. Other stages allocate tasks to available locations (or nodes) to balance ...
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