Understanding DB2®: Learning Visually with Examples, Second Edition

Foreword

What a difference two years make. When the first edition of this book came out in 2005, DB2 Universal Database^® (UDB) for Linux^®, UNIX^®, and Windows^® version 8.2 was the hot new entry on the database management scene. As this book goes to press, DB2 9.5 is making its debut. While this latest DB2 release builds on the new features introduced in 8.2, it also continues along the new direction established by DB2 9: native storage and management of XML by the same engine that manages traditional relational data.

Why store and manage relational and XML data in the same data server, when specialized management systems exist for both? That’s one of the things you’ll learn in this book, of course, but here’s the high-level view. As a hybrid data ...