Basic & Advanced Administration for Linux

Duration: 32 hours

Pre requisites

Basic Operating system knowledge and Unix/Linux commands exposure

Basic knowledge on SQL commands and RDBMS concepts

DBA experience on any OLTP/OLAP environments is an added advantage

Course Outline

Overview of DB2 on Linux, UNIX and Windows

Command Line Processor (CLP) and GUI usage

Database Manager Instance

Creating databases and data placement

Creating database objects

Moving data

Backup and recovery

Database Maintenance, Monitoring and Problem Determination

Locking and concurrency

Security

Log Management

Performance Tuning

Advanced Monitoring

High Availability with DB2 database products

Contents

Unit 1: Overview of DB2 on Linux, UNIX and Windows (1 hour)

DB2 family products overview (LUW, Mainframe, iSeries)

DB2 LUW product editions (Express-c to PureScale to InfoSphere)

DB2 product features and functions

DB2 client connectivity options (Data Studio, Data Server Client)

Unit 2: Command Line Processor (CLP) and GUI usage (1 hour)

Introduction to DB2 CLP environment

Non-interactive mode

Interactive mode

db2 command line options

Client connectivity from Data Studio

Unit 3: The DB2 Database Manager Instance (3 hours)

About DB2 Instance

Database Manager Instance overview

DB2 instance creation pre-requisites

Create and Drop an instance

Starting and Stopping an instance

list and modify DBM configuration

db2set command

db2 history command

DB2 registry and environment variables

o Exercise 1: Product installation, extract and instance creation

Unit 4: Creating databases and data placement (4 hours)

Database creation pre-requisites

Database storage requirements

Table spaces overview

Storage management overview (SMS, DMS, Automatic)

Default Table spaces

CREATE DATABASE command

List DB configuration parameters

Modify DB configuration parameters

Database directories and files introduction

System catalog tables and views

Containers, extents, pages overview

CREATE TABLESPACE syntax

Storage groups overview

CREATE STOGROUP syntax

Assigning a tablespace to a storage group

Introduction to db2pd command

ALTER TABLESPACE, ALTER STOGROUP

DB2 LIST DB DIRECTORY

DB2 LIST NODE DIRECTORY

Activate and deactivate a database

o Exercise 2: Creating databases and data placement

Unit 5: Creating database objects (2 hours)

DB2 object hierarchy

CREATE SCHEMA

CREATE TABLE, VIEW

CREATE ALIAS, INDEX, TRIGGER

creation of temporary tables

Creation of temporal tables

Table partitioning

Referential Integrity

Keys, Constraints

db2look CLI command

Authorization & Authentication

o Exercise 3: Creation of table spaces, tables, databases

Unit 6: Moving data (3 hours)

IMPORT versus LOAD

Offline versus online load

LOAD QUERY TABLE

DB2 LIST UTILITIES

Pending states (Load, backup, set integrity)

EXPORT command

db2move cli command

ADMIN_MOV_TABLE procedure

o Exercise 4: Moving data using Export, Import, Load

Unit 7: Backup and recovery (3 hours)

Transactional logging (Circular, Archival)

Configure database logs

Backup utility options

Recovery utility options

ROLLFORWARD

DB2 RECOVER DATABASE

ONLINE versus OFFLINE backup

o Exercise 5: Backup and recovery

Unit 8: Database Maintenance, Monitoring and Problem Determination (3 hours)

RUNSTATS utility

REORGCHK utility

REORG Utility

DB2 List commands

db2pd - Monitory and troubleshoot DB2

MON_GET_TABLE function

CREATE EVENT MONITOR

DB2 Optimizer

DB2 EXPLAIN

db2diag.log diagnostic log

db2trc command to obtain trace

db2fodc: collect diagnostic data for system hang

db2advis: Analyze workload

o Exercise 6: Using above DB2 Tools/Utilities

Unit 9: Locking and concurrency (2 hours)

Importance of locking

Table lock modes

Row lock modes

Lock mode compatibility

Isolation levels

LOCK TABLE statement

Lock escalation, wait, and timeout

Deadlocks and detection

o Exercise 7: using db2pd to identify locks, wait locks, deadlocks

Unit 10: Security (1 hour)

Authentication versus Authorization

SYSADM, SYSCTRL, SYSMAINT, SYSMON

DBADM, SECADM, ACCESSCTRL

DB2 security privilege hierarchies

Grant and Revoke privileges

o Exercise 8: Database Security using grant/revoke

Unit 11: Log Management (2 hours)

Database seeds

Log sequence numbers

db2ckbkp -l command

logfilsiz, logbufsz

Logprimary and Logsecond

db2pd to check logging activity

Log Archive processing

Log retrieval processing

MAX_LOG configuration parameter

o Exercise 9: Log archive/retrieval process

Unit 12: Performance Tuning (3 hours)

Analyze SQL statements

Create an access plan graph

db2exfmt tool

db2expln tool

Using Indexes for performance

Index usage statistics using db2pd

MON_GET_INDEX

MON_CONNECTION_SUMMARY view

Clustering indexes

db2advis command

o Exercise 10: Explain Tools, Indexes creation

Unit 13: Advanced Monitoring (2 hours)

GET SNAPSHOT command

In-memory metrics

Monitoring table functions

Administrative views, functions

Monitoring performance with SQL

Monitor heath with SQL

o Exercise 11: In memory metrics, SQLS, Admin views, functions

Unit 14: High Availability with DB2 Database products (2 Hours)

o High Availability options in DB2

o DR options in DB2

o High Availability Disaster Recovery (HADR)

o High Availability through Log Shipping

o Log mirroring

o High Availability through suspended I/O and online split mirror support

o Exercise 12: DB2 HADR setup (1 primary, 1 standby creation, setup,

communication)