Pro Tips on Managing Data at Scale
Transaction Logging: In this short blog post I am going to cover transaction logging, its importance and how to measure logging performance. Transaction logging is needed by RDBMS to ensure Durability, the last alphabet in (ACID) principles. If you are a DBA, you must know about ACID (Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation and Durability) principles and ARIES … Read more
Problem: I work at a place where performance of our services are closely monitored. This is not the case with most other places that I worked at in the past, at least not from application stand point. So, our pureScale cluster have 5 databases whenever we create an index on any large table in ANY … Read more
Problem Statement: You are trying to figure out if there are any Foreign key constraints in your database with out the corresponding Index. If you are working in an OLTP environment you already know most of your query patterns include a join on primary key (parent table) and foreign key(s) (child tables). It is important … Read more
In this blog post I am going to discuss few Linux tips and tricks that I use every once in a while to troubleshoot problems or to understand existing environment. Finding Top 10 Largest Files on the System Including Full Path: If you run into a file system full condition and need to figure out … Read more
Task Description: You need to restore a Db2 database backup and archival logs backed up on source Db2 instance/server on to a different target Db2 instance/server, how would you go about it ? Task Assumptions: Host name of the source Db2 server is mysource.example.com. Source Instance name is srcinst1. Host name of the target Db2 … Read more
Problem Statement: So you are a database administrator and you configured your Db2 environment to send its backups to Veritas NetBackup. However your backups are failing and you are not getting enough information from the generic errors messages thrown at you by Db2. Furthermore you are not familiar with NetBackup, how do you troubleshoot Db2 … Read more
Task Description: Configure Db2 LUW database and transactions log backups to use Veritas NetBackup Enterprise backup solution. Task Assumptions: The task procedure in the next section makes following assumptions. As a result please read below bullet points carefully. You are using RedHat Enterprise Linux family related Operating System. You already installed NetBackup client on the … Read more
Problem Statement: You need to run DB2 LOAD utility in a HADR environment, however DB2 LOAD utility only logs certain kinds of transaction log records and its not enough to replicate the loaded data via transaction logs to the HADR Standby(s). If you would like to learn more about what kind of log records that … Read more
Problem Statement: Prior to DB2 V9.7, its a struggle to reduce the high water mark of a DMS tablespace. So what is tablespace high water mark anyway? High water mark of a tablespace can be defined as the highest allocated page number in a tablespace. Consider the following fabricated image of a tablespace with 3 … Read more
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