Getting Startedwith pureQuery

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Preface
Keeping your skills current in today's world is becoming increasingly challenging. There are
too many new technologies being developed, and little time to learn them all. The DB2®
on Campus Book Series has been developed to minimize the time and effort required to
learn many of these new technologies. The content of this book is based in the features
available in the version 2.2.0.1 of IBM® Optim Development Studio and IBM Optim
pureQuery Runtime. At the time this book was ready for publishing, new features of
pureQuery became generally available. For more information about these new features,
refer to the “What’s New?” page in this link:
https://www-304.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg27016961
Who should read this book?
This book is intended for anyone who needs to learn about pureQuery, IBM’s highperformance
data access platform. pureQuery delivers benefits in the entire spectrum of
the application life cycle, including the design, development, management and governance
stages. This book should be read by all individuals that participate in the stages of the
application life cycle, especially application developers and database administrators.
Before reading this book, it is recommended that you have some familiarity or knowledge
regarding topics addressed by the following books, also part of the DB2 on Campus Book
Series:
• Getting Started with Eclipse
• Getting Started with IBM Data Studio for DB2
• Getting Started with Java
• Getting Started with DB2 Express-C
How is this book structured?
This book is structured in five major parts:
• Part I provides an overview of pureQuery and contextualizes it in the enterprise
database application spectrum. Chapter 1 introduces pureQuery and describes its