DB2 Extenders
DB2 Extenders enhance the usability and functionality of the relational database manager system (RDMS) for nontraditional data types, such as documents, multimedia, or geographical data. Unlike traditional data types in which the data is separated into individual elements, these data types have more complex structures. They can be complete text documents or binary files stored in large objects (LOBs). They can be external files stored on a local file system referenced using DB2 Datalinks Manager. They also can be structured data types with multiple properties.
Traditional SQL is unaware of the document structure, language, format or properties of nontraditional data types. The RDMS has limited functionality to manage these types ...
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