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Search results: Db2

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Reorg pending after three ALTER TABLE statements is not useful in 24x7 environment

After three ALTER TABLE statements (depending on the clause, but an error can be forced by changing type from VARCHAR to CHAR ) table switches into reorg pending state. This state can only be resolved by an offline reorg.Additional problem is that...
almost 11 years ago in Db2 2 Delivered

DB2 LUW: Intra-tablespace parallelism

Db2 V9.7 FP2: Intra-tablespace parallelism can reduce elapsed time for backups Starting in Version 9.7 Fix Pack 2, intra-tablespace parallelism was introduced and can be used during backups other than delta and incremental backups. Intra-tablespac...
about 8 years ago in Db2 3 Delivered

Bitemporal tables and missing highest quantiles

If a user issues FOR BUSINESS_TIME AS OF clause against a bitemporal table, DB2 translates it to a where clause with two range predicates against business_time columns. In our system following situation occurs quite frequently: 1) At all time...
about 3 years ago in Db2 0 Delivered

Remove per-tablespace size limitation for v11.1 and v11.5 community edition

Currently if we restore a database backup that was taken on a higher edition of Db2 into Developer-C, it fails with SQL1139N, even if it is fully less than 100GB. There are two workarounds for this: Set a MAX for all table spaces before taking th...
over 6 years ago in Db2 4 Delivered

ALTER TABLE DROP COLUMN for BLU tables

ALTER TABLE DROP COLUMN is not yet supported on BLU tables.
over 7 years ago in Db2 1 Delivered

Improve performance of SET INTEGRITY command through use of (intra partition) parallelism

SET INTEGRITY does currently not make use of intrapartition parallelism. SET INTEGRITY (with "checked" option) for large tables and/or tables with many foreign key and/or check constraints consumes a large amount of time while the table is not acc...
over 5 years ago in Db2 0 Delivered

Enable access of hidden columns with federation

Basically, federation is a client application of the data source, so what the database expose to client is seeable for federation. As for the hidden column, it's designed not visible to client, the hidden column is not able to be fetched from the ...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Federation 2 Delivered

Externalize dictionary information using ADMIN_GET_TAB_DICTIONARY_INFO for BLU tables

BUILDER,BUILD_TIMESTAMP,SIZE,ROWS_SAMPLED and are important information to be able to determine how good a dictionary might be.
over 7 years ago in Db2 1 Delivered

Support LOB data types for DB2 BLU

DB2 BLU still doesn't support LOB related data types. Some existing databases in DB2 or other RDBMS, such as Oracle, need to be migrated to DB2 BLU and contain some tables with LOB data types. Without LOB data types support for DB2 BLU, they have ...
almost 10 years ago in Db2 0 Delivered
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DB2 Backup with file(tablespace/container) section backups similar to Oracle RMAN

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On Busy OLTP systems one or few tables might grow in size over time and which contributes to a single tablespace size increase and it directly impacts your db2 backup duration due to the fact that 1 tablespace = 1 parallel only at that point and w...
about 1 year ago in Db2 1 Delivered