Getting Started with IBM Data Studio for DB2

68 Getting Started with IBM Data Studio for DB2
Figure 2.1 – Database administrators have a wide range of responsibilities
Figure 2.1 shows the basic tasks that any database administrator needs to perform. There
are other responsibilities such as complying with data privacy requirements that are
beyond the scope of Data Studio but are covered in other IBM solutions. You can read
more about this in Chapter 11.
This chapter briefly explains some basic things database administrators need to know,
such as managing instances and connections, and then goes into managing objects, views
and indexes and granting privileges. In the next chapter, we will describe tasks required to
support availability and maintenance, such as managing table spaces, updating statistics,
importing and exporting data, managing user privileges, and managing buffer pools.
2.1.1 Database Administration perspective
The Database Administration perspective, as the name suggests, focuses on database
administration tasks. You may notice that this perspective is similar in many ways to the
Data perspective, and you can do the same tasks in the Data perspective; however, the
Database Administration perspective is tailored to suit the needs of database
administrators and is laid out to provide a more straightforward user interface for those
tasks.
You can switch to the Database Administration perspective by going to Window -> Open
Perspective -> Other and selecting Database Administration. Figure 2.2 shows the views in
the Database Administration perspective. For more details regarding the perspectives and
their views refer to Chapter 1.