In this tables, I relate general terminology, versions, utilities and views from IBM DB2 and Oracle databases..

This mini tip show you how to know when was the last time you restart a DB2 server on a UNIX / LINUX.

> db2 get snapshot for dbm | grep Start

Start Database Manager timestamp = 04/02/2011 13:45:20.516473

Simple, isn't it?

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Below are a list with the more common status of IBM DB2 tablespaces

The most used method to show the status of the tablespaces is, from the console command line:

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Db2look is an utility to extract the definition of database objects. It also allows some really interesting statistics to extract objects for export to other test environments / integration plans and get the same access to objects.

In this article we will see more frequent usefulness.

DDL extraction of the objects in my schema:

db2look -d MI_BBDD -a -e -x -o FICHERO_SALIDA.txt

Extraction of the DDL of the DEPT table:

db2look -d MI_BBDD -t DEPT -a -e -x -o FICHERO_SALIDA.txt

To include statistics to have to use the “-m” option.

The cache hit ratio is one of the indicators used for tuning tasks. It Measures the percentage of hits in memory, specifically in the bufferpools (each of them).

To get the cache hit ratio for each buffer pool configured to run this query:

SELECT SUBSTR(DB_NAME,1,8) AS DB_NAME, SUBSTR(BP_NAME,1,14) AS BP_NAME,
TOTAL_HIT_RATIO_PERCENT, DATA_HIT_RATIO_PERCENT,
INDEX_HIT_RATIO_PERCENT
FROM SYSIBMADM.BP_HITRATIO ORDER BY DBPARTITIONNUM
 

In this shosrt post we will show how to obtain the N first rows from a Query on IBM DB2.

With Oracle SQL would be with ROWNUM, and with SQL Server we'd use TOP.

This is the Top 10 query syntax:

select *

from My_Table

fetch first 10 rows only