4.3. Development Tools

The development tools help you build and deploy stored procedures, user-defined functions, and structured types. There are two tools that fall into this category: the Development Center and the Project Deployment tool.

4.3.1. The Development Center

The Development Center is included with both the Application Development Client and with all DB2 UDB server edition products. This tool helps you build, debug, and test application objects that are stored in the database server, such as stored procedures, user-defined functions (UDFs), and structured types.

Stored procedures allow you to move part of the application logic to the database, providing a centralized location from which you can maintain your code. Because the logic ...

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