DB2 II performance monitoring, tuning, and capacity planning guide

This IBM Redbooks publication provides an overview of DB2 Information Integrator V8.2 key performance drivers; best practices to achieve optimal performance; and guidelines for monitoring a DB2 Information Integrator environment for capacity planning, problem diagnosis, and problem resolution. This...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: International Business Machines Corporation. International Technical Support Organization (-)
Other Authors: Alur, Nagraj (-)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: San Jose, CA : IBM, International Technical Support Organization c2004.
Edition:1st ed
Series:IBM redbooks.
Subjects:
See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009627146506719
Table of Contents:
  • Front cover
  • Contents
  • Figures
  • Tables
  • Examples
  • Notices
  • Trademarks
  • Preface
  • The team that wrote this redbook
  • Become a published author
  • Comments welcome
  • Chapter 1. DB2 Information Integrator architecture overview
  • 1.1 Introduction
  • 1.2 Current business trends
  • 1.2.1 From on demand to grid computing
  • 1.2.2 From grid computing to data federation
  • 1.2.3 From data federation to information integration
  • 1.3 IBM's DB2 Information Integration overview
  • 1.3.1 Data consolidation or placement
  • 1.3.2 Distributed access (federation)
  • 1.3.3 DB2 Information Integrator products
  • 1.4 DB2 Information Integrator V8.2
  • 1.4.1 DB2 II V8.2 overview
  • 1.4.2 DB2 II components
  • 1.4.3 Configuring the federated system
  • 1.4.4 Performance considerations
  • 1.5 DB2 Information Integrator topology considerations
  • 1.5.1 Dedicated federated server
  • 1.5.2 Collocated federated server
  • Chapter 2. Introduction to performance management
  • 2.1 Introduction
  • 2.2 Performance management
  • 2.3 Types of monitoring
  • 2.3.1 Routine monitoring
  • 2.3.2 Online/realtime event monitoring
  • 2.3.3 Exception monitoring
  • 2.4 Problem determination methodology
  • Chapter 3. Key performance drivers of DB2 II V8.2
  • 3.1 Introduction
  • 3.2 Compilation flow of a federated query
  • 3.3 Execution flow of a federated query
  • 3.4 Key performance drivers
  • 3.4.1 Performance factors
  • 3.4.2 Federated server considerations
  • 3.4.3 Data source considerations
  • 3.4.4 Efficient SQL queries
  • 3.4.5 Hardware and network
  • Chapter 4. Performance problem determination scenarios
  • 4.1 Introduction
  • 4.2 DB2 II hypotheses hierarchy
  • 4.2.1 DB2 II federated database server resource constraints
  • 4.2.2 DB2 II resource constraints
  • 4.2.3 Federated server or remote data source
  • 4.2.4 Federated server related.
  • 4.2.5 Remote data source related
  • 4.3 Monitoring best practices
  • 4.3.1 Performance considerations
  • 4.3.2 Best practices
  • 4.4 Problem scenarios
  • 4.4.1 Federated test environment
  • 4.4.2 Missing or incorrect statistics/index information
  • 4.4.3 Poorly tuned sort heap and buffer pools
  • 4.4.4 Missing or unavailable MQTs
  • 4.4.5 Incompatible data types on join columns
  • 4.4.6 Pushdown problems
  • 4.4.7 Default DB2_FENCED wrapper option with DPF
  • Chapter 5. Capacity planning in an existing DB2 II environment
  • 5.1 Introduction
  • 5.2 Capacity planning assumptions
  • 5.3 Capacity planning procedure
  • 5.3.1 Capacity planning procedure overview
  • 5.4 Capacity planning new applications
  • 5.4.1 Model of different profiles of queries
  • 5.4.2 Determine new application workload
  • 5.4.3 Estimate capacity for the new application
  • Appendix A. DB2 II V8.2 performance enhancements
  • Introduction
  • Fenced wrappers
  • Parallelism enhancements
  • Intra-partition parallelism in a non-DPF environment
  • Inter-partition parallelism in a DPF environment with local data
  • Inter-partition parallelism in a DPF environment without local data
  • Updating nickname statistics
  • Cache tables
  • Informational constraints
  • Snapshot monitor support
  • Health Center alerts
  • Appendix B. DB2 EXPLAIN facility with DB2 Information Integrator
  • Brief review of the DB2 EXPLAIN facility
  • db2exfmt overview
  • EXPLAIN INSTANCE section
  • SQL STATEMENT section
  • Access plan graph
  • OPERATOR DETAILS section
  • Objects section
  • Complete db2exfmt output
  • Federated test environment
  • db2exfmt examples involving DB2 II
  • Join of nicknames referencing Oracle and SQL server
  • INTRA_PARALLEL = YES (intra-partition enabled)
  • Database Partition Feature (DPF) with FENCED = 'N'
  • Database Partition Feature (DPF) with FENCED = 'Y'
  • DB2_MAXIMAL_PUSHDOWN = 'N'.
  • DB2_MAXIMAL_PUSHDOWN = 'Y'
  • SQL INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE
  • Related publications
  • IBM Redbooks
  • Other publications
  • Online resources
  • How to get IBM Redbooks
  • Help from IBM
  • Index
  • Back cover.