Product Description

@SUMMARY= IBM has just expanded its highly successful DB2 certification program to include a developer's exam -- and this is the first book to offer start-to-finish preparation! The book covers every DB2 Application Developer exam objective, and includes a complete sample exam. Start by reviewing the DB2 client/server environment, comparing the multiple programming interfaces available to DB2 application developers, and understanding when to choose each. Next, walk through the fundamentals of DB2 application development with Embedded SQL, ADO, CLI/ODBC, JDBC, SQLJ, and the Perl DBI. Learn how to create effective stored procedures, and when to use them. Discover how to use DB2 extenders to enhance your application's functionality, adding more effective search features, XML support, multimedia archive management, and more. DB2 Version 8 represents one of the most feature-packed significant releases in DB2's history! With Version 8 key topics such as Performance Enhancements, Manageability Enhancements, etc are addressed. The IBM Press DB2 series presents not only the new features in Version 8, but also gives technical details about the new features, tips and tricks, and detailed examples.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1489589 in Books
• Published on: 2003-06-30
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 432 pages

From the Back Cover

You will find every skill and technique you need to build enterprise, Web, and eBusiness applications with DB2 UDB v8. This book is IBM's official guide to becoming an IBM Certified Application Developer for the DB2 Universal Database v8 Family.

New to the second edition is the inclusion of the information that you will need to prepare for the Fundamentals exam, a prerequisite to the Application Development exam. This section covers information about the DB2 products, tools, connectivity, data objects, manipulation, control, security, and concurrency.

The application development section has been revised and updated to reflect new powerful features of DB2. You can review the DB2 client-server environment, the role of SQL, and the basic structure of a DB2 application; compare the programming interfaces available for DB2 application development, choosing the ones most appropriate to each project; and, of course, prepare for the Application Development Exam.

As a bonus, information that is not needed to become an IBM Certified Application Developer for the DB2 Universal Database v8 Family has been provided by the authors to show you how to take advantage of IBM's powerful Extenders for DB2. Using Extenders, you can build searchable indexes to quickly find elements within text, audio, image, or XML objects stored in DB2.

• Section 1 covers all the fundamentals of DB2 to get you started and to prepare you for the DB2 UDB v8 Family Fundamentals Exam (test 700)
• Section 2 covers every DB2 v8 programming interface and strategy and will help prepare you for the DB2 UDB v8 Family Application Development Exam (test 703)
• Section 3 contains bonus materials including information about the many Extenders that are available to create powerful indexes for text, audio, image, and XML documents

The accompanying CD-ROM contains a complete trial version of DB2 UDB v8 Personal Edition along with the Application Development Client.

About the Author

DAVID MARTINEAU is the team lead for DB2's Level 3 CLI/ODBC Development Team.

STEVE SANYAL architects Java™ Enterprise solutions for customers.

KEVIN GASHYNA develops code for DB2's powerful server.

MICHAEL KYPRIANOU is involved with DB2's system verification testing.

David Martineau, Kevin Gashyna, and Michael Kyprianou helped to develop the DB2 UDB Family Application Development Exam.

Customer Reviews

Don't make the same mistake - find a different book
I bought this book because it was on a recommended reading list for various DB2 UDB Certifications. I had already had success with two of the other recommendations so I believed this would be helpful as well. I couldn't have been more wrong.

After reading Sanders DB2 Study Guide for the fundamentals (Test #700) and passing the exam, the Application Developer was the next logical step. I had already taken a sample test and nearly passed so I didn't have much to go to pass this CERT. After reading this book I question whether I got enough out of it to pass yet.

The first problem with this book, and it is my fault for not checking, is that the first six chapters is relevant to the fundamentals exam and not the Application Development exam. Since the fundamentals are a pre-requisite some might say it belongs here. I don't agree and was disappointed. I'll get to the second section in a minute. The third section contained bonus materials that are beyond the scope of the exam. That is fine with me because at least it was related material. While reading the second section however, right smack dab in the middle of it, was a chapter on the Administrative API. The written objective states, "The Administrative API is not covered in the DB2 Application Development Certification exam." My question, what is it doing here? If anything it could have been put in the last section. The main point is that this is indicative of the organization of the materials within each chapter as well. While reading the second section of the book I found sections of text that were copied from within the book and repeated. This wasn't done to reaffirm a topic but seemed that the author's intent was to replace it later with different text. The problem was that it was never changed and was just plain wrong information. This goes beyond the notion of typos and is unacceptable for a book of this nature. Another problem is this book contained no review questions and no sample test questions and yet it is supposed to be considered a certification guide. When I'm preparing for an exam I like to read some material and then get feedback to my level of understanding before moving on. Later on it gives me a follow-up study list to review weak areas.