Foreword

It has been a banner year for DB2 UDB version 8, and we are still months away from celebrating the first anniversary of our general availability. Shortly after being introduced into the market, DB2 UDB v8 has amassed a distinguished list of accomplishments.

Within the first few weeks, we captured the ultimate TPC-H data warehousing crown by becoming the first database ever to succeed and publish at the challenging 10TB scale factor. At the time of this writing, we have captured the TPC-C “world cup” with the industry's leading OLTP performance and price-performance. Along the way, we delivered many other firsts and leadership accomplishments including gaining .Net Connected certification; Windows 2003 certification; delivering support ...

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