DB2® Universal Database™ v8 Application Development Certification Guide, 2nd Edition

Administration

To keep the Text Extender index information current, some administrative tasks are required. Common administrative tasks include updating and reorganizing an index, changing index settings, and managing index events. Updating an index incrementally adds changes to an existing index with current database information. Reorganizing an index reorders the entire index so it runs more efficiently. Index settings, such as automatic updating frequency, can be changed at any time. Index events are used to report problems that need to be corrected.

Updating an index refreshes the index information with recent changes to the corresponding documents in the database. There are two ways to keep the index information up to date. The first method ...