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Chapter 2 – Managing your database
environment
Whether you are a developer or database administrator, everyone working with or
connecting to a database, needs to understand the basics of managing their database
environment. This chapter discusses how to manage your DB2 database environment
using Data Studio.
In this chapter you will learn:
• How to stop and start a DB2 instance
• How to create and connect to a database and navigate through the database.
• How to create tables, views and indexes and deploy them using a change plan
• How to manage users and grant them access to database objects
• How to generate entity-relationship diagrams
• How to work with existing tables to edit data and generate DDL
Note:
This book does not explain basic DB2 concepts, but shows you how to work with them. If
you are not familiar with DB2 Express-C, review the Getting Started with DB2 Express-C
book, which is part of this DB2 on Campus series.
2.1 Managing your database environment: The big picture
As mentioned in Chapter 1, Data Studio is the successor of other tools, such as the DB2
Control Center. Control Center was officially deprecated in DB2 9.7, which means it is still
supported in DB2 9.7 but will no longer be enhanced and will be removed from a
subsequent release of DB2. Data Studio includes support for many database administrator
tasks, which are shown in Figure 2.1.