L'autore:
Raul F. Chong is a Senior DB2, Big Data and Cloud Program Manager and Technical Evangelist based at the IBM Canada Laboratory. He leads the development and design of several offerings for the Information Management (IM) brand of IBM, with the goal of increasing awareness and growing communities around IBM IM products, such as IBM InfoSphere BigInsights, IBM InfoSphere Streams, DB2 database software, IBM Data Studio, InfoSphere Data Architect, and pureQuery technology. As part of the IM Cloud Computing Center of Competence at the Toronto Lab, Raul leads the development and deployment of projects by the community using DB2 on the Cloud, such as bigdatauniversity.com and db2oncampus.org. As a technical evangelist, Raul travels worldwide delivering presentations and workshops targeting customers, IBM business partners, and the Academia. Raul develops and leads the development of collateral material such as articles, books, videos, courses, and DVDs that help educate users in IBM IM products. He has also participated actively in the development of training material and offerings of IBM IM Certification programs. Raul joined IBM in 1997 and has worked as a DB2 consultant, DB2 technical support specialist, and DB2 Information Developer. Raul has summarized many of his DB2 experiences through the years in the first and second editions of the book Understanding DB2—Learning Visually with Examples for which he is the lead author. He has also co-authored the book DB2 SQL PL Essential Guide for DB2 UDB on Linux, UNIX, Windows, i5/OS, and z/OS (ISBN 0131477005), and other books that are part of the DB2 on Campus book series. In his spare time, Raul enjoys playing with his two little daughters. Raul is fluent in Spanish as he was born and raised in Peru, but he keeps some of the Chinese traditions from his grandparents. He also enjoys reading history and archeology books.
Clara Liu was recently appointed to be the Program Manager of IBM Cross Brand Technical Initiatives. She manages leading edge strategic projects across IBM brands. Her prior management role was with the DB2 Planning team. Her previous consulting experience gave her an insight and solid understanding of customers’ needs. Based on market demand, competition pressure, and objectives of maximizing return of investment, she drives software enhancements into the product with the right balance between leading edge technology and business needs. In many DB2, Warehouse, PureData Systems versions and releases, Clara held key responsibilities such as planning product enhancements, managing product offer portfolio and license entitlement, making software available on fulfillment systems for customers, and planning for smooth migration paths for customers when products reach end of life. Over the years, she delivered many product hands-on and video demonstrations with her team. Those are great assets for the IBM Sales and Marketing team and customers who want to ‘see’ and ‘play’ with the technologies. Due to the board involvement in numerous phases of the database product life cycle, Clara has established great networking within the development organization as well as across the business teams. As a mother of two, Clara had coauthored five books (including this one), all focusing in her technical expertise, DB2 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows.
Product Description:
DB2 Essentials, 3E: Understanding DB2 in a Big Data World is the easiest way to master the newest versions of DB2 for Linux(r), UNIX(r), and Windows, and apply their full power to today's business challenges. This highly visual guide introduces you to key concepts with dozens of examples drawn from the authors' experience working with IBM DB2 in enterprise environments. It has been thoroughly updated to reflect major improvements in both DB2 Version 10 and Version 9.7, including innovations in manageability, integration, Big Data support, and cloud computing. This easy tutorial is built around visual learning. Each chapter starts with a large picture to introduce its key concepts. Figures are used extensively, and are fully and clearly explained; each concept is presented with intuitive screenshots, diagrams, charts, and tables. Many examples and case studies illustrate how "theory" is applied in real-life scenarios and production environments. Hundreds of review questions help you prepare for IBM's newest DB2 certification exams; solutions are provided in an appendix. Building on the previous edition (Understanding DB2), DB2 Essentials is now the first of two volumes. "Essentials" covers everything DB2 newcomers need to get productive, including: * A brief history of IBM DB2, new features in the current version, and available products, editions, and tools * Installing DB2 * Creating instances, databases, and database objects * Setting up security and choosing the right security options * Managing data access (including introductions to SQL and data concurrency) * Setting up remote connectivity * Administering DB2 databases with the most useful DB2 utilities
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