On Mon, 02 Jul 2007 23:11:02 -0700, kavin wrote:
What are all the common problems or major issues a DBA can
face?
what are all the catagories in which problems arise in db2..
that can help to log a call to DB2 admin...
- Dealing with show-stopper lock situations.
- Fixing tablespaces which are in various sub-optimal
states after more or less failed LOAD operations.
- Helping users getting the EXPLAIN facility to work.
Why does this have to be so involved (setting up
special tables, and - it seems - giving them
rather broad permissions before the EXPLAIN
facility works properly)?
- Helping users install DB2 client software on their
PCs.
Adding databases/nodes to catalogs (why is this
annoying task needed - why can't db2cc be asked
to perform connections to databases which haven't
been catalogued?).
- Performance-related tweaks (bufferpools, etc).
- Fixing tablespaces which turn out to be of the
wrong type (e.g. with an unsuitable page size, thus
not allowing for large tables; this problem is
supposed to be less of a problem with DB2 v. 9).
- User additions/deletions/permission-adjustments.
- Helping users restoring data which have been
lost by accident.
- Regularly checking db2's error-log, and regularly
checking that backups really went well.
- Storage planning/re-organizations/additions.
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Regards,
Troels Arvin <tr****@arvin.dk>
http://troels.arvin.dk/ 
