As a DBA it is important to closely manage your space usage and understand the benefits that DB2’s architecture provides. This includes keeping data in partitioned tables equally distributed to gain the DB2 benefits of parallelism during query execution, ensuring tables are leveraging the benefits of DB2’s advanced compression algorithms, and taking advantage of DB2 LUW storage groups to ease space management. In this short video, Toad for DB2 development manager, Jeff Podlasek, demonstrates how Toad for DB2 allows you to quickly analyze partition balancing, compression and storage group usage.
Related Articles
5 types of posts in the Toad for Oracle® forum
Toad for Oracle. Verse 5 in the 12 Days of … Our gift to you this season is wrapping up our favorite blogs about a product into a collection, with a song to go with each! Each week in December, stay t...
Partitioned Tables and ColumnStore
ColumnStore indexes are all the rage with data warehouses. They’re fast, they’re new(ish) and they solve all sorts of problems when dealing with massive amounts of data. However they can cause some i...
Toad Data Point Automation Series: Blog #9 – Execute Script
The most common automation activates are exporting and importing data. There are times when some database set up is needed. This can be done with the Execute Script activity. For example, I have ...
