Getting Startedwith pureQuery

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Getting Started with pureQuery
• Isolate problems to the correct layer in the stack, including visibility into database
related performance indicators in WebSphere application servers
With these insights, problems that took days to isolate before can now be found in minutes.
The problems can be solved by one person, rather than having to route a problem from
DBA to net admin, to AIX and WAS admin, to developer, just to try to gather enough
information and skills to investigate every layer of the stack.
1.6 Career path
Because the vision of pureQuery is to support a wide variety of heterogeneous database
environments, learning the tools and APIs associated with pureQuery can help you be
more productive as a developer or DBA in an environment where support of mixed
databases is required.
Application developers who use the pureQuery API can build applications that run both on
DB2 (and which can easily be converted to static SQL for optimized applications) and on
Informix Dynamic Server and Oracle databases. Additional databases are planned to be
added to this list over time. And the process to optimize existing Java applications using
client optimization is supported across all those databases.
In addition, the emphasis on performance in the development cycle with pureQuery will
help application developers grow database and query tuning skills that can help them grow
to a DBA or specialized query tuning position.
1.7 The pureQuery community
Because pureQuery is a platform that can span a variety of data servers, programming
languages, and IT roles, pureQuery will benefit a wide variety of communities – any of the
DB2 communities, Oracle communities, or Java development communities for example.
There is also a developerWorks discussion forum on Optim Development Studio and
pureQuery that many people in the community and in the software labs monitor and
respond to at
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/forums/forum.jspa?forumID=1086&categoryID=19