Creating databases and data placement

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Unit objectives
After completing this unit, you should be able to:
Review specifics of creating a database
Explore the System Catalog tables and views
Check and update Database configuration parameter settings
Compare DMS, SMS and Automatic Storage managed table spaces
Describe how to setup and manage a DB2 database with Automatic Storage
enabled
Define Storage Groups to manage databases with different classes of
storage available
Differentiate between table spaces, containers, extents, and pages
Create and alter table spaces
Create buffer pools to handle multiple page sizes or improve table access
efficiency
Use DB2 commands and SQL statements to display current table space
statistics and status information
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Create database overview

Database Manager Instance

database1

database2

Tablespace A
Tablespace B
Table 1

Table 2

Table 3

Table 4

Tablespace A
Table 1

Table 2

Databases are created within a Database Manager instance

Table spaces are a logical layer created within a database
Tables are created within table spaces
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Database storage requirements

Database Path:
Database Control Files for each database
Includes Database Configuration file, Recovery History, Log Control files, Table
space Control file, Bufferpool Control file and others
Initial location for database log files
Default location is dftdbpath in DBM CFG
Needs to be a local file system

Automatic Storage paths:

Allows groups of table spaces to be managed rather than managing each table space
independently
If Automatic storage is enabled there will be at least one path defined
Initial Storage Paths can be defined when a database is created

Default System table spaces:

Use Automatic Storage management by default, if enabled, but can be defined to use
any supported type of table space
SYSCATSPACE: DB2 catalog tables
TEMPSPACE1: System Temporary tables, provide work space for sorting and utility
processing
USERSPACE1: Initial table space for defining user tables and indexes
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DB2 Storage Management basics

DB2 supports three types of storage management for table spaces
All three types can be used in a single database
Storage Management type set when a table space is created
DMS Database Managed Storage:
Table space containers defined using the specified files or raw devices
Disk space allocated is reserved for objects in that table space

SMS System Managed Storage:

Table space containers defined using the specified directories

No defined initial size or limit
DB2 creates files for each database object
Disk space is freed when objects are dropped
Use of SMS management for non-temporary data is deprecated with DB2 10.1

Automatic Storage Management:

Multiple table spaces share defined disk Storage Paths

Multiple Storage groups can be defined (DB2 10.1)
Can be enabled when a database is created or added to an existing database
DB2 automatically defines the number and names for containers
Uses SMS for temporary storage and DMS for other storage types
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CREATE DATABASE syntax

DATABASE
DB

CREATE

database-name
AT DBPARTIONNUM
|Create Database Options|

Create Database options:

AUTOMATIC STORAGE

ALIAS

db-alias

YES
NO

ON
,

USING CODESET

IDENTITY

path
drive

DBPATH ON

TERRITORY territory

4096
n K

DFT_EXTENT_SZ

dft-extentsize

RESTRICTIVE

CATALOG TABLESPACE |tblspace-defn|

USER TABLESPACE |tblspace-defn|

TEMPORARY TABLESPACE |tblspace-defn|

WITH

"comment-string"

tblspace-defn:
|

codeset

PAGESIZE

COLLATE USING

path
drive

MANAGED BY

SYSTEM USING (
DATABASE USING (

EXTENTSIZE
OVERHEAD

|autoconfigure-settings|
,
)
'container-string'
,
FILE
'container-string'
DEVICE

num-pages

PREFETCHSIZE

number-of-milliseconds

TRANSFERRATE

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num-pages

num-pages
number-of-milliseconds

CREATE DATABASE examples

create database sales1 on /dbsales1
Database Path: /dbsales1
Automatic Storage Path: /dbsales1
create database sales2 automatic storage no on /dbsales2
Database Path: /dbsales2
Automatic Storage not enabled
create database sales3 on /dbauto3 dbpath on /dbsales3
Database Path: /dbsales3
Automatic Storage Path: /dbauto3
create database sales4 automatic storage yes
on /dbauto41,/dbauto42,/dbauto43
dbpath on /dbsales4
Database Path: /dbsales4
Automatic Storage Paths: /dbauto41, /dbauto42 and /dbauto43

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Completed by
DB2 during database creation (1 of 2)
1. Creates database in the specified subdirectory
2. If Automatic storage is enabled a default storage group named
IBMSTOGROUP is created
3. Creates SYSCATSPACE, TEMPSPACE1, and USERSPACE1 table spaces
4. Creates the system catalog tables and recovery logs
5. Catalogs database in local database directory and system database
directory
6. Stores the specified code set, territory, and collating sequence
7. Creates the schemas SYSCAT, SYSFUN, SYSIBM, and SYSSTAT
8. Binds database manager bind files to the database (db2ubind.lst)
DB2 CLI packages are automatically bound to databases when the databases
are created or migrated. If a user has intentionally dropped a package, then
you must rebind db2cli.lst.
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Completed by
DB2 during database creation (2 of 2)
9. Grants the following privileges:
ACCESSCTRL , DATAACCESS , DBADM and SECADM
privileges to database creator
SELECT privilege on system catalog tables and views to PUBLIC
UPDATE access to the SYSSTAT catalog views
BIND and EXECUTE privilege to PUBLIC for each successfully
bound utility
CREATETAB, BINDADD, IMPLICIT_SCHEMA, and CONNECT
authorities to PUBLIC
USE privilege on USERSPACE1 table space to PUBLIC
Usage of the WLM workload for user class
SYSDEFAULTUSERCLASS to PUBLIC

When the RESTRICTIVE option is used, no privileges are

automatically granted to PUBLIC
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Database Path storage

Partition-global directory
The partition-global directory has the path:
your_instance/NODExxxxSQLxxxxx

Member-specific directory
The member-specific directory has the path:
your_instance/NODExxxx/SQLxxxx/
MEMBERxxxx

/database/inst481/NODE0000/SQL00001:

db2rhist.asc
db2rhist.bak
db2rhist.lock
HADR
load
LOGSTREAM0000 (Default database logs)
MEMBER0000
SQLDBCONF
SQLOGAB
SQLOGCTL.GLFH.1
SQLOGCTL.GLFH.2
SQLOGCTL.GLFH.LCK
SQLSGF.1
SQLSGF.2
SQLSPCS.1
SQLSPCS.2

/database/inst481/NODE0000/SQL00001
/LOGSTREAM0000:
S0000000.LOG
S0000001.LOG
S0000002.LOG

/database/inst481/NODE0000/SQL00001
/MEMBER0000:

db2event
DB2TSCHG.HIS
HADR
SQLBP.1
SQLBP.2
SQLDBCONF
SQLINSLK
SQLOGCTL.LFH.1
SQLOGCTL.LFH.2
SQLOGMIR.LFH
SQLTMPLK

Local database Directory

/database/inst481/NODE0000/sqldbdir:
sqldbbak
sqldbdir
sqldbins

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Default
table space containers with Automatic Storage
CREATE DATABASE DSS ON /dbauto DBPATH ON /database

dbauto

DB2INSTANCE=inst20

inst20
NODE0000

DSS
T0000000

SYSCATSPACE

C0000000.CAT

T0000001

TEMPSPACE1
C0000000.TMP

T0000002
C0000000.LRG
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USERSPACE1

S Y S S T A T

v
i
e
w
s

S Y S IB M .S Y S C O L U M N S
S Y S IB M .S Y S T A B L E S

...

S Y S C A T

...

System Catalog tables and views

See notes for actual table and view names.

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Table space, container, extent, page

TABLE SPACE
CONTAINER

EXTENT
DATA
PAGE

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Containers and table spaces

Container is an Allocation of Physical Space
What Does a Container Look Like?

File
Directory

Device

Directory

File

Device

SMS

DMS

DMS

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Writing to containers
DFT_EXTENT_SZ defined at database level
EXTENTSIZE defined at table space level
Data written in round-robin manner

Container 0

Container 1
1

Extent
Table space TBS
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Table space design limits: Row Identifiers

Standard RIDs
4
KB

Large RIDs
64
GB

128
GB

8 KB

4
KB
256
GB

16 KB

512
GB

32 KB

8
TB

16
TB

8 KB

32
TB

16 KB

64
TB

32 KB

table space size

Page size

Page size
table space size

16M

255

4x109 Rows

Row ID (RID) 4 Bytes

16M
512M

~2K

1.1x1012 Rows

Large Row ID (RID) 6 Bytes

For tables in Regular table spaces

For tables in LARGE table spaces

(DMS or Automatic Storage)
Also all SYSTEM and USER temporary
table spaces

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CREATE TABLESPACE syntax (1 of 2)

LARGE
TABLESPACE

CREATE

tablespace-name

REGULAR
SYSTEM

TEMPORARY
PAGESIZE 4096

USER

PAGESIZE integer

DATABASE PARTITION GROUP

db-partition-group-name

IN

-USING STOGROUP--storagegroup-name- | size-attr.

AUTOMATIC STORAGE
| system-containers |
SYSTEM
DATABASE |database-containers |
num-pages
EXTENTSIZE
K
integer
M
G

MANAGED BY

PREFETCHSIZE

AUTOMATIC
num-pages
integer

OVERHEAD

BUFFERPOOL
K
M
G

number-of-milliseconds
Inherit

TRANSFERRATE

bufferpool-name

number-of-milliseconds
Inherit

NO FILE SYSTEM CACHING

FILE SYSTEM CACHING
DROPPED TABLE RECOVERY

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ON
OFF

CREATE TABLESPACE syntax (2 of 2)

size-attributes:
INITIALSIZE int

YES
NO

AUTORESIZE

INCREASESIZE int perc

K
M
G

K
M
G

system-containers:

MAXSIZE int

K
M
G
NONE

,
USING

'container-string'

)
| on-db-partitions-clause |

database-containers:
USING

| container-clause |
| on-db-partitions-clause |

container-clause:

,
(

FILE

'container-string'

DEVICE

on-db-partitions-clause:

num-pages
integer
K
M
G

,
ON

DBPARTITIONNUM

db-partition-number1
TO

DBPARTITIONNUMS
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db-partition-number2

Storage Groups (multi-temperature storage)

Partitioned Table Sales

Partition
Automatic
Storage
Table Space

2012Q1

Table Space 14

New

2011Q2

Table Space 13 Table Space 12

Table Space 11

2011Q1 2010Q4 2006Q3

Table Space 10

Table Space 9

Table Space 1

spath: /hot/fs1

Storage
Group

2011Q3

2011Q4

SG_HOT

spath: /warm/fs1
spath: /warm/fs2

SG_WARM

spath: /cold/fs1
spath: /cold/fs2
spath: /cold/fs3

SG_COLD

Physical Disk
SSD RAID Array

FC/SAS RAID Array

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SATA RAID Array

Creating a storage group

Use the CREATE STOGROUP statement to create a new
storage group
>>-CREATE--STOGROUP--storagegroup-name-------------------------->
.-,--------------.
V
|
>--ON---'storage-path'-+--------------------------------------->
>--+----------------------------------+------------------------>
'-OVERHEAD--number-of-milliseconds-'
>--+-----------------------------------------------+----------->
'-DEVICE READ RATE--number-megabytes-per-second-'
>--+--------------------------------+-------------------------->
'-DATA TAG--+-integer-constant-+-'
'-NONE-------------'
>--+----------------+-----------------------------------------><
'-SET AS DEFAULT-'

CREATE STOGROUP HIGHEND

ON '/dbe/filesystem1', '/db2/filesystem2'
OVERHEAD 0.75 DEVICE READ RATE 500
CREATE STOGROUP MIDRANGE ON 'D:\', 'E:\' SET AS DEFAULT
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Assigning a table space to a storage group

A specific storage group can be selected with the USING
STOGROUP option of CREATE TABLESPACE
create tablespace tsp04
managed by automatic storage using stogroup app_data
initialsize 100 K maxsize none
extentsize 2;

The database storage path defined when the database is

created named , IBMSTOGROUP
This will be the default storage group for automatic storage table
spaces when USING STOGROUP is not specified
The ALTER STOGROUP statement option SET AS DEFAULT can be
used to change which storage group is the default for a database

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Managing storage groups using ALTER STOGROUP

Use the ALTER STOGROUP statement to make changes to a
storage group
Similar to database storage paths in previous releases
New disk storage paths can be added
Existing storage paths can be dropped
Use ALTER TABLESPACE REBALANCE for each table space to release
containers on dropped path
>>-ALTER--STOGROUP--storagegroup-name--------------------------->
.-------------------------------------------------------.
|
.-,--------------.
|
V
V
|
(1) |
>----+-ADD---'storage-path'-+------------------------+-----+---><
|
.-,--------------.
|
|
V
|
|
+-DROP---'storage-path'-+-----------------------+
+-OVERHEAD--number-of-milliseconds--------------+
+-DEVICE READ RATE--number-megabytes-per-second-+
+-DATA TAG--+-integer-constant-+----------------+
|
'-NONE-------------'
|
'-SET AS DEFAULT--------------------------------'
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Query storage groups with SQL using the table function

ADMIN_GET_STORAGE_PATHS
select varchar(storage_group_name,20) as storage_group,
storage_group_id,
varchar(db_storage_path,20) as storage_path,
db_storage_path_state,
(fs_total_size / 1000000) as total_path_MB,
(sto_path_free_size / 1000000) as path_free_MB
from table(admin_get_storage_paths('',-1)) as T1

STORAGE_GROUP
STORAGE_GROUP_ID STORAGE_PATH
DB_STORAGE_PATH_STATE
-------------------- ---------------- -------------------- --------------------IBMSTOGROUP
0 /dbauto/path1
IN_USE
APP_DATA
1 /dbauto/path2
IN_USE
TOTAL_PATH_MB
PATH_FREE_MB
-------------------- -------------------20940
5649
20940
5649
2 record(s) selected.

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Listing storage groups with the db2pd command

db2pd db testdb storagegroups
Database Member 0 -- Database MUSICDB -- Active -- Up 0 days 00:09:09 -- Date
03/23/2012 09:13:49
Storage Group Configuration:
Address
SGID Default DataTag
0x8F241740 0
Yes
0
0x8F240490 1
No
0
0x90C39640 2
No
0
Storage Group Statistics:
Address
SGID State
0x8F241740 0
0x00000000
0x8F240490 1
0x00000000
0x90C39640 2
0x00000000
Storage Group Paths:
Address
SGID PathID
0x8F241850 0
0
0x8F241BF0 0
1
0x94F6F210 1
1024
0x94F6F510 1
1025
0x90C39750 2
2048
0x90C39AF0 2
2049

Name
IBMSTOGROUP
SG_HIGH
SG_LOW

Numpaths
2
2
2

PathState
InUse
InUse
InUse
InUse
InUse
InUse

NumDropPen
0
0
0

PathName
/dbauto/path1
/dbauto/path2
/dbauto/path1/sg_high
/dbauto/path2/sg_high
/dbauto/path1/sg_low
/dbauto/path2/sg_low

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Storage Management alternatives: Automatic

Automatic Storage Managed:
Administration is very easy, no need to define the number or names of the containers
Disk space assigned from disk paths for a storage group
Monitoring of available space at the storage group level instead of each table space
Multiple containers will be created using all available paths for the storage group
Automatic Storage can be enabled when the database is created or added to an
existing database
Default is ON for CREATE DATABASE with DB2 9
Storage paths can be added or removed using ALTER STOGROUP
Uses standard DMS and SMS under the covers:
DMS used for REGULAR and LARGE table spaces
SMS used for SYSTEM and USER TEMPORARY table spaces
Table space allocation controlled by CREATE/ALTER options:
INITIALSIZE: Defaults to 32 MB
AUTORESIZE: Can be set to YES or NO
INCREASESIZE: Can be set to amount or percent increase
MAXSIZE: Can define growth limits
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Automatic Storage: Table space examples

Syntax for CREATE and ALTER TABLESPACE:
CREATE TABLESPACE <tsName> [MANAGED BY AUTOMATIC STORAGE]
[USING STOGROUP storagegroup-name ]
[INITIALSIZE integer {K|M|G}]
[AUTORESIZE {NO|YES}] [INCREASESIZE integer {PERCENT|K|M|G}]
[MAXSIZE {NONE | integer {K|M|G}}]

Default initial size is 32 MB

Default max size is none
Default increase size is determined by DB2, which might change over
the life of the table space

Examples: CREATE
CREATE
CREATE
CREATE
CREATE

TABLESPACE USER1 USING STOGROUP APP_DATA

TEMPORARY TABLESPACE TEMPTS
TABLESPACE MYTS INITIALSIZE 100 M MAXSIZE 1 G
LARGE TABLESPACE LRGTS INITIALSIZE 5 G AUTORESIZE NO
REGULAR TABLESPACE USER2 INITIALSIZE 500 M
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ALTER TABLESPACE
ALTER TABLESPACE can be used to change table space
characteristics:
For all types table space management, you can adjust:

Bufferpool assigned
Prefetch size
Overhead and Transfer rate I/O Costs
File System Caching option

For DMS-managed table spaces, you can:

Use the ADD, DROP, RESIZE, EXTEND, REDUCE and BEGIN NEW STRIPE
SET to directly adjust container names and sizes.
Use MANAGED BY AUTOMATIC STORAGE to convert to Automatic Storage
management

For Automatic Storage-managed table spaces, you can:

Use the REDUCE option to release unused disk space
Use REBALANCE to reallocate containers when Automatic Storage paths are
added or dropped

For DMS and Automatic Storage, you can:

Change the MAXSIZE, INCREASESIZE and AUTORESIZE settings

For Automatic Storage

Change the storage group, USING STOGROUP
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Adding or dropping Automatic Storage paths

New Automatic Storage paths can added to a storage group using the
ALTER STOGROUP
alter STOGROUP APP_DATA add storage on
/dbauto/path3,/dbauto/path4

Automatic Storage can be enabled in an existing database by creating

the first storage group, which becomes the default storage group
Existing Automatic table spaces will grow using the previously
assigned storage paths until remaining space is used
Newly created table spaces will begin to use all defined paths
Individual table spaces can be altered using REBALANCE to spread
data over all storage paths
Storage paths can also be removed using ALTER STOGROUP
alter STOGROUP IBMSTOGROUP drop storage on /dbauto/path1

The dropped path will be in drop pending state until a ALTER

TABLESPACE with the REBALANCE option is used for each table
space with containers on the dropped path
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Using the SYSCAT.TABLESPACES view

SELECT substr(tbspace,1,18) as tbspace, substr(definer,1,10) as definer,
tbspaceid, tbspacetype, datatype, sgname
from syscat.tablespaces
TBSPACE
-----------------SYSCATSPACE
TSP06
SYSTOOLSPACE
USERSPACE1
TEMPSPACE1
TSP04
TSP05
TSP01
TSP02
TSP03
SMS01

DEFINER
TBSPACEID
TBSPACETYPE
---------- ----------- ----------SYSIBM
0 D
INST28
9 D
INST28
3 D
SYSIBM
2 D
SYSIBM
1 S
INST28
7 D
INST28
8 D
INST28
4 D
INST28
5 D
INST28
6 D
INST28
10 S

11 record(s) selected.

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DATATYPE
-------A
A
L
L
T
L
L
A
L
L
A

SGNAME
-----------IBMSTOGROUP
IBMSTOGROUP
IBMSTOGROUP
IBMSTOGROUP
IBMSTOGROUP
APP_DATA
APP_DATA
-

Using the db2pd command to list tablespace status and

statistics
db2pd db musicdb tablespaces

Database Member 0 -- Database MUSICDB -- Active -- Up 0 days 00:04:04 -- Date 05/03/2012

17:38:55
Tablespace Configuration:
Address

Id

Type Content PageSz ExtentSz Auto Prefetch BufID BufIDDisk ..Name

0x9396EEC0 0

DMS

Regular 4096

Yes

..SYSCATSPACE

0x93977C90 1

SMS

SysTmp

4096

32

Yes

32

..TEMPSPACE1

0x93982990 2

DMS

Large

4096

32

Yes

32

..USERSPACE1

0x95727700 3

DMS

Large

4096

Yes

..SYSTOOLSPACE

0x957B92B0 4

DMS

Regular 4096

Yes

..TSP01

0x957C58B0 5

DMS

Large

4096

Yes

..TSP02

0x957D8760 6

DMS

Large

4096

Yes

..TSP03

0x957E0EC0 7

DMS

Large

4096

Yes

..TSP04

0x957E9620 8

DMS

Large

4096

Yes

..TSP05

0x957F1D80 9

DMS

Regular 4096

Yes

..TSP06

0x957FA4E0 10

SMS

Regular 4096

Yes

..SMS01

Tablespace Statistics:
Address

Id

TotalPgs

UsablePgs

UsedPgs

PndFreePgs FreePgs

HWM

0x9396EEC0 0

24576

24572

20696

3876

20696

0x93977C90 1

..
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Using the MON_GET_TABLESPACE function

The MON_GET_TABLESPACE table function returns monitor metrics for one or
more table spaces.
Syntax
>>-MON_GET_TABLESPACE--(--tbsp_name--,--member--)---><

Example
To list table spaces ordered by number of physical reads from table space
containers.
SELECT varchar(tbsp_name, 30) as tbsp_name,
member,
tbsp_type,
pool_data_p_reads
FROM TABLE(MON_GET_TABLESPACE('',-2)) AS t
ORDER BY pool_data_p_reads DESC

TBSP_NAME
MEMBER TBSP_TYPE POOL_DATA_P_READS
------------------------------ ------ ---------- -------------------SYSCATSPACE
0 DMS
79
USERSPACE1
0 DMS
34
TEMPSPACE1
0 SMS
0

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Additional DB2 System table spaces

The SYSTOOLSPACE table space is a user data table space used by the DB2
administration tools and some SQL administrative routines for storing historical data
and configuration information:
ADMIN_COPY_SCHEMA procedure
ADMIN_DROP_SCHEMA procedure
ADMIN_MOVE_TABLE procedure
ADMIN_MOVE_TABLE_UTIL procedure
Administrative task scheduler
ALTOBJ procedure
Automatic Reorganization (including the db.tb_reorg_req health indicator)
Automatic Statistics Collection (including the db.tb_runstats_req health
indicator)
Configure Automatic Maintenance wizard
db2look command
GET_DBSIZE_INFO procedure
Storage Management tool
SYSINSTALLOBJECTS procedure
The SYSTOOLSTMPSPACE table space is a user temporary table space used by
the REORGCHK_TB_STATS, REORGCHK_IX_STATS and the ADMIN_CMD
stored procedures for storing temporary data.
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Database buffer pools

Databases have one buffer pool, IBMDEFAULTBP when the database
is created
The page size is 4K unless CREATE DATABASE includes the PAGESIZE option

Use the CREATE BUFFERPOOL statement to create a new buffer pool

.-IMMEDIATE-.
>>-CREATE BUFFERPOOL--bufferpool-name--+-----------+------------>
'-DEFERRED--'
.-SIZE--1000--AUTOMATIC----------------.
>--+--------------------------------------+-------------------->
+-SIZE--number-of-pages----------------+
|
.-1000------------.
|
'-SIZE--+-----------------+--AUTOMATIC-'
'-number-of-pages-'
>----+--------------------------+----------------------------><
'-PAGESIZE--integer--+---+-'
'-K-'

Use ALTER BUFFERPOOL to change buffer pool size

Table spaces must be assigned to a buffer pool with a matching
pagesize
Use the BUFFERPOOL option of CREATE TABLESPACE to assign a buffer pool
ALTER TABLESPACE can be used to change the assigned buffer pool
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Designing Buffer Pools

Advantages of large buffer pools
Frequently requested data pages to be kept in the buffer pool, which allows
quicker access.
Fewer I/O operations can reduce I/O contention, thereby providing better
response time
They provide the opportunity to achieve higher transaction rates with the same
response time.

Considerations for using more than one buffer pool:

Temporary table spaces can be assigned to a separate buffer pool to provide
better performance for queries, especially sort-intensive queries
If data must be accessed repeatedly and quickly by many short updatetransaction applications, consider assigning the table space that contains the data
to a separate buffer pool.
You can isolate data into separate buffer pools to favor certain applications, data,
and indexes..
You can use smaller buffer pools for data that is accessed by seldom-used
applications, especially applications that require very random access into a very
large table.
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Maintain or List System Database Directory

CLP
db2 ? CATALOG DATABASE
CATALOG DATABASE database-name [AS alias] [ON path | AT NODE nodename]
[AUTHENTICATION {SERVER | CLIENT | ... | SERVER_ENCRYPT}]
[WITH "comment-string"]
db2 'CATALOG DATABASE ourdb AS TESTDB ON /database WITH "Test Database"'

...

db2 LIST DATABASE DIRECTORY

Database alias
Database name
Local database directory
Database release level
Comment
Directory entry type
Catalog database partition number

=
=
=
=
=
=
=

TESTDB
OURDB
/database
a.00
Test Database
Indirect
4

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Database configuration

db2 get db cfg for musicdb show detail

db2 update db cfg for musicdb using <parm> <value>
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ACTIVATE and DEACTIVATE the database

ACTIVATE DATABASE
Activates the specified database and starts up all necessary
database services, so that the database is available for connection
and use by any application.
Incurs the database startup processing
db2 activate db <db_name> user <user> using
<password>

DEACTIVATE DATABASE
Databases initialized by ACTIVATE DATABASE can be shut down
using the DEACTIVATE DATABASE command, or using the
db2stop command.
db2 deactivate db <db_name>

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Unit summary
Having completed this unit, you should be able to:
Review specifics of creating a database
Explore the System Catalog tables and views
Check and update Database configuration parameter settings
Compare DMS, SMS and Automatic Storage managed table spaces
Describe how to setup and manage a DB2 database with Automatic Storage
enabled
Define Storage Groups to manage databases with different classes of
storage available
Differentiate between table spaces, containers, extents, and pages
Create and alter table spaces
Create buffer pools to handle multiple page sizes or improve table access
efficiency
Use DB2 commands and SQL statements to display current table space
statistics and status information
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Student exercise

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