Neagu - IBM DB2 9.7 Advanced Administration Cookbook

Adrian Neagu has over 10 years of experience as a database administrator, mainly with DB2 and Oracle databases. He has been working with IBM DB2 since 2002.

He is an IBM DB2 Certified Administrator (versions 8.1.2 and 9), Oracle Database Administrator Certified Master 10g, Oracle Certified Professional (9i and 10g), and Sun Certified System Administrator Solaris 10. He is an expert in many areas of database administration, such as performance tuning, high availability, replication, and backup and recovery.

In his spare time, he enjoys cooking, taking photos, and catching big pikes with huge jerkbaits and bulldawgs.

I would like to give many thanks to my family, to my daughter Maia-Maria, and my wife Dana, who helped and supported me unconditionally, and also to my colleagues, my friends, to Rukshana Khambatta, my acquisition editor, for her patience, and finally to Robert Pelletier and Marius Ileana, who have provided invaluable advice, helping me to climb up the cliffs of authoring.

Robert Pelletier is a Senior DBA Certified Oracle 8i, 9i, 10g, and DB2. He has 12 years of experience as DBA, in production/development support, database installation and configuration, and tuning and troubleshooting. He has more than 30 years of IT experience in application development in mainframe central environments, client-server, and UNIX. More recently, he has added expertise in Oracle RAC 11gR2, 10gR2, 9i, DB2 UDB DBA, ORACLE 9iAS, Financials, PeopleSoft, and also SAP R/2 & R/3. He is renowned for his expertise among many major organizations worldwide and has a solid consulting background in well-known firms.

I would like to thank my wife, Julie, and son, Marc-Andr, for their positive and unconditional support, and also to Adrian Neagu, who helped me a lot for coauthoring this book, and all the Packt publishing team for making this possible. I would also like to thank my clients and colleagues who have provided invaluable opportunities for me to expand my knowledge and shape my career.

Marius Ileana is an OpenGroup Certified IT specialist currently working in banking industry.

Working for six years in IBM Romania as a part of middleware team and also being a two-year support specialist, he has been involved in various IBM-related technologies and enterprise grade deployments.

He holds many IBM certifications including IBM Certified DBA for DB2 9 on LUW. Since Java development is one of his hobbies, he is also a Sun Certified Programmer for Java v1.4. His areas of expertise include AIX, HACMP, WebSphere Application Server, DB2 UDB, and design and development of J2EE applications.

His current focus areas include the architecture and development of a general-purpose monitoring solution, Portal solutions, and data visualization.

Nitin G. Maker is an IBM Certified DB2 UDB DBA with around 11 years of IT experience, primarily in IBM DB2 Universal Database Technologies. He has demonstrated excellent capabilities in various roles as Data Architect/Database Administrator/DataWarehouse Architect, Applications Administrator, Upgrade Specialist, and Technical Team Leader.

Nitin has worked with many leading software houses in India and also completed assignments in the USA, UK, and Sri Lanka. He is currently based in Pune, with his family, and enjoys making new friends, listening to music, and following sports.

Drazen Martinovic graduated at the Faculty of Electronics, Machinery and Shipbuilding, Split, Croatia, in 1996. He worked in DHL international d.o.o. as a Unix administratorIT support administratorfor 11 years. He then started to work as a database administrator for DB2 for LUW. He has been an IBM Certified Database Administrator (DB2 9 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows), since last year.

He works in the Raiffeisenbank Austria d.d. Zagreb bank as a Database Administrator for DB2. It has over 2000 employees.

Eldho Mathew is a DB2 LUW, Linux and AIX certified administrator with 8 years of proven expertise in various aspects of building, administrating, and supporting highly complex 24x7 operational and warehouse database servers. He has handled highly complex and critical systems for many top branded customers in UK.

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