Db2 Blog Posts

Writing SQL with SQL

The Db2 RDBMS offers many great tools for getting things done. There are, however, times when tools are unavailable. This isn’t a problem when you’re performing a simple and discrete task. When the task has many iterations then like dropping triggers or granting...

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Setting Up HADR with Two Auxiliary Standbys

In my previous blog, I presented some of the issues you can run into when setting up one auxiliary HADR standby and a potential solution. This blog discusses setting up two auxiliary standby databases in detail. Let's start with all the information we need to set the...

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Three Text Highlighting Tricks with PuTTY

PuTTY is a free, cross-platform terminal program that supports SSH, telnet, and raw socket connections. For authentication it supports public key and kerberos single-sign-on. This application, is one of the oldest clients for Microsoft Windows, released by Simon...

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Db2 System Authorities

How do I grant a user SYSADM, SYSCTRL, SYSMAINT, or SYSMON privileges in Db2? As a newbie to the database administration world, I was tasked with giving a pretend user the ability to create databases in a virtual environment setup for learning. I easily found that the...

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SQL0443N After Db2 Fixpack Upgrade

After applying a Db2 fixpack, you can get SQL0443N when calling the get_dbsize_info() stored procedure. Cause and resolving the problem: get_dbsize_info() uses the system catalogs internally which do not get updated as part of a fix pack update, and should be updated...

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