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Analytical Functions

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Allow Wildcards in ADMIN_GET_TAB_% functions

Example: if one uses a query like this:SELECT ... FROM TABLE(SYSPROC.ADMIN_GET_TAB_COMPRESS_INFO('SCHEMA1', '')) WHERE TABNAME LIKE 'ABC%' The Function will run for all tables in the given schema and after that will filter the output for predicate...
almost 8 years ago in Db2 / Analytical Functions 0 Not under consideration

XMLQUERY Not working in the JOINS

Currently we need to use the XMLQUERY in our LEFT OUTER JOINS during view creation. The views are created with no error, While querying the view it fails with below error. An ON clause associated with a JOIN operator or in a MERGE statement is not...
over 8 years ago in Db2 / Analytical Functions 0 Not under consideration

Control query parallelism by estimated SQL cost

Competing products (Oracle Database, Microsoft SQL Server) provide the ability to configure query optimizer in a way that it considers using query parallelism only when query complexity exceeds the configured threshold. DB2 lacks that capability, ...
almost 9 years ago in Db2 / Analytical Functions 0 Not under consideration

Enhancement to support month granularity in MDC generated columns under oracle compat mode(RIMS)

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about 9 years ago in Db2 / Analytical Functions 0 Not under consideration

Enable multiple query optimization class

Add a new database configuration parameter to let DB2 the use of several query optimization classes when compiling an sql statement and choose the best access path depending on the query cost. It could be done automatically depending on a fixed th...
about 9 years ago in Db2 / Analytical Functions 0 Not under consideration

Analytical Database(Structured; Unstructured; BigData)(RIMS)

State Farm is looking for a flexible database platform where any analytics can be performed (structured, unstructured data, big data.). They are wanting 1 database that can combine what DB2, Neteeza and BigInsights are able to accomplish. They tol...
about 9 years ago in Db2 / Analytical Functions 0 Not under consideration

New db2diag.log message to indicate when an optimizer plan is missed due to missing temp tablespace(RIMS)

(See Discussion entry for full details) When an optimizer plan is ineligible due to the non-existence of a sufficiently large temporary tablespace (ie. sort is unable to handle the width of workload row size), a db2diag.log message should be writt...
about 9 years ago in Db2 / Analytical Functions 0 Not under consideration

Optimizer documentation needs enhancement(RIMS)

Optimizer documentation needs enhancement. Until a lab services consultant came onsite to help them they were not able to adequately tune their queries due to poor optimizer documentation. Benefit: Verizon is now a very big user of DB2 and we spen...
about 9 years ago in Db2 / Analytical Functions 0 Not under consideration

Enable/Disable Query OPT(RIMS)

Ability to enable/disable query optimization for foreign keys at a statement level. Example, many ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) processes utilize SQL statements to verify data integrity when foreign keys are not enforced. In order to return corre...
about 9 years ago in Db2 / Analytical Functions 0 Not under consideration

Keep a row count in the table statistics(RIMS)

Keep a row count in the table statistics like redbrick does. Select count(*) shouldnt take 15 minutes no matter how big the table is And that is 15 minutes and still running And there should be an aliasing mechanism in place where a select count w...
about 9 years ago in Db2 / Analytical Functions 1 Not under consideration