AUDIENCE:   IT personnel who need to know the new DB2 9 facilities and how they might affect them. The emphasis on certain subjects will be adjusted to reflect the audience; for example if the delegates on the course are all applications programmers then less in depth teaching will be given for the UTILITIES part of the course. PREREQUISITES:   Those attending the course should be confident in writing DB2 applications in previous releases of DB2 DURATION:   2 days. Hands on. OBJECTIVES:   The course is designed to instruct those delegates who are fairly confident in designing, writing and testing DB2 applications and now need to know the facilities that are available to them with the new DB2 9 release. COURSE CONTENT:   Introduction Environment/System Changes XML Tablespace types DECFLOAT BIGINT VARBINARY Simple tablespaces SQL INTERSECT EXCEPT MERGE TRUNCATE SELECT from DELETE, UPDATE and MERGE PERFORMANCE INSERT Logging Index page changes Append options Not logged tablespaces Optimization changes Optimization support center Variable length OTHER Online schema changes (Database Definition On Demand) Online table space reorganization Table cloning Instead of triggers Stored procedure changes OLAP changes Security changes Utility changes IC07