Foreword

An ongoing challenge for today's computer professionals is reserving the time to develop new skills to keep up with changes in technology. Our value as technology professionals is increased as we learn and develop new skills with industry-leading products. One of the most technologically advanced products is DB2 Universal Database, which is also the market leader on popular environments such as Linux.

More than 20 years ago, relational database technology was invented with IBM Research delivering the first commercially available database in the early 1980s. This invention created the unique ability to represent data in a simple tabular form, access it through powerful SQL, and make it readily available to the business community. Today, ...

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