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Wednesday, October 5, 2011

DB2 cheat sheet

Some useful DB2 commands

DB2 System Commands

DB2LEVEL -- checks version of DB2 installed.

DB2ILIST -- lists all instances installed

DB2CMD -- opens a command line processor

DB2CC -- opens db2 control center

DB2LICM -l -- gets db2 type. 

Command Line Processor Commands

DB2 LIST NODE DIRECTORY -- Lists all nodes

DB2 CATALOG TCPIP NODE DB2NODE REMOTE MACHINE215 SERVER 50000 -- catalogs node.  In this case, node is db2Node on the machine with
name machine215. Port is 50000.
DB2 LIST DATABASE DIRECTORY -- list databases
DB2 GET DB CFG FOR SAMPLE -- get configuration info for the SAMPLE db.

DB2 CONNECT TO alexDB USER myuser USING mypass -- connect to db. In this case, database is alexdb, usern is myuser and password is mypass.
DB2 DISCONNECT alexdb  -- disconnects

DB2 LIST APPLICATIONS SHOW DETAIL -- shows all running db's

DB2 GET DBM CFG -- view authentication paramater (e.g. something like server_encrypt)

DB2 UPDATE DBM CFG USING AUTHENTICATION SERVER_ENCRYPT -- alter the authentication mechanism to server_encrypt 
DB2 GET AUTHORIZATIONS -- get authorisation level. 

Database commands via Command Line Processor (CLP)

DB2 GET DATABASE CONFIGURATION -- gets current database configuration
DB2 VALUES CURRENT USER - - gets the current user

DB2 VALUES CURRENT SCHEMA -- gets the current schema

DB2 VALUES CURRENT QUERY OPTIMIZATION -- get query optimization level.

Schemas
DB2 SELECT SCHEMANAME FROM SYSCAT.SCHEMATA -- list all schemas
DB2 VALUES CURRENT SCHEMA -- gets the current schema

DB2 SET SCHEMA ALEXSCHEMA -- set schema

Tables
DB2 LIST TABLES FOR schema_name -- list all tables for particular schema
DB2 LIST TABLES SHOW DETAIL; -- show detail about tables

DECLARE GLOBAL TEMPORARY TABLE -- declares a temporary table

CREATE TABLE MQT AS (SELECT c.cust_name, c.cust_id, a.balance FROM customer c, account a WHERE c._cust_name IN ('Alex') AND a.customer_id
- c.cust_id) DATA INITIALLY DEFERRED REFRESH DEFERRED -- Creates a materialised query table. In this case the MQT is based on a join query from
the customer and account table.

Tablespaces
DB2 LIST TABLESPACES SHOW DETAIL -- show detail about table spaces
SELECT * FROM SYSCAT.TABLESPACES;  -- show what syscat has about tablespaces
SELECT tbspace, bufferpoolid from syscat.tablespaces;  -- get tablespace and bufferpoolid

SELECT TABNAME FROM SYSCAT.TABLES WHERE TBSPACE=2; -- Check what TABLES are in tablespace where id = 2.
Constraints
SELECT * FROM SYSCAT.TABCONST;  -- Table constraints
SELECT * FROM SYSCAT.CHECKS;  -- Colum checks
SELECT * FROM SYSCAT.COLCHECKS; -- Column constraints 
SELECT * FROM SYSCAT.REFERENCES; --  Referential constraints
Sequences
CREATE SEQUENCE STESTRESULT AS INTEGER INCREMENT BY 1 START WITH 1 NO MINVALUE NO MAXVALUE NO
CYCLE CACHE 10 ORDER;  -- Create Sequence starting with 1 which cache 10 values
SELECT * FROM SYSCAT.SEQUENCES; -- Gets systcat info on sequences
VALUES NEXT VALUE FOR MYSEQ; -- Gets next value from sequence myseq
ALTER SEQUENCE MYSEQ RESTART WITH 11 INCREMENT BY 1 MAXVALUE 10000 CYCLE CACHE 12 ORDER -- Changes MySeq sequence

Locksize
SELECT TABNAME, LOCKSIZE FROM SYSCAT.TABLES WHERE TABNAME = ' EMPLOYEES';  -- Check locksize which can be
tablespace, table, partition, page, row - (usually row).

Bufferpools
SELECT bpname, npages, pagesize from syscat.bufferpools -- get useful buffer pool info.
SELECT buffer.bufferpoolid, buffer.bpname, buffer.npages, buffer.pagesize, tablespace.tbspace, tablespace.tbspaceid from
syscat.bufferpools buffer, syscat.tablespaces tablespace where tablespace.bufferpoolid = buffer.bufferpoolid;  -- gets
buffer pool and corresponding tablespace info.

Indexes
SELECT * FROM SYSCAT.INDEXES --  show all indexes
SELECT COLNAMES, TABNAME, INDEXTYPE, CLUSTERRATIO, CLUSTERFACTOR FROM SYSCAT.INDEXES WHERE
TABNAME = 'TPERSON';  -- some useful columns

Functions
SELECT * FROM SYSCAT.FUNCTIONS;  -- check what functions DB has.

SYSDUMMY1 commands
SELECT CURRENT DATE FROM SYSIBM.SYSDUMMY1; -- gets current date.
SELECT HEX(36) FROM SYSIBM.SYSDUMMY1;  -- same as VALUES HEX(36)
SELECT XMLCOMMENT ('This is an XML comment') FROM SYSIBM.SYSDUMMY1;

Runstats
RUNSTATS ON TABLE TAUSER1.TOSUSER FOR INDEXES ALL;  -- runstats for all indexes
Checking the last time runstats was run...
SELECT CARD, STATS_TIME FROM SYSCAT.TABLES WHERE TABNAME = 'TOSUSER';
SELECT NLEAF, NLEVELS, FULLKEYCARD, STATS_TIME, TABNAME, INDNAME FROM SYSCAT.INDEXES WHERE TABNAME
= 'TOSUSER';
The following catalog columns can be queried to determine if RUNSTATS has been performed on the tables and indexes:
If the CARD column of the SYSCAT.TABLES view displays a value of -1, or the STATS_TIME column displays a NULL value
for a table, then the RUNSTATS utility has not run for that table.
If the NLEAF, NLEVELS and FULLKEYCARD columns of the SYSCAT.INDEXES view display a value of -1, or the STATS_TIME
column displays a NULL value for an index, then the RUNSTATS utility has not run for that index.

Alex Staveley at 8:53 AM

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11 comments:
Yosep Gustri March 29, 2012 at 10:55 PM
Hi like your post.. very helpful..
Need a permission to post in my blog with your blog link.
thanks!
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Alex Staveley June 11, 2014 at 6:01 AM

Yeah no problem

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Terry August 21, 2012 at 11:23 AM

Great post, very helpful for a DB2 newbie (I've been doing Oracle for 17 years but have just come across the need to use DB2).

FYI, small error in the "Tables" section: to list schemas, the correct syntax is (it was just missing the 'schema' keyword):
DB2 LIST TABLES FOR SCHEMA schema_name -- list all tables for particular schema

Thanks again and best regards,

Terry
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Sorcha June 27, 2013 at 7:44 AM

great blog post
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atish kumar December 2, 2013 at 4:17 AM

Gr8 post, Thanks
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jatin January 9, 2014 at 12:46 AM

Nice post for newbie ,thanks
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RAJAT March 9, 2014 at 7:26 AM

Very informative and helpful.
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Manula April 26, 2015 at 11:25 PM

Thank you very much. These commands are very helpful to us. Once again thank you very much !!!
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javiertolin June 17, 2015 at 8:20 AM

your post helped a lot. Thanks for the info.
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t00m November 25, 2016 at 10:46 AM

Thanks for this post. It helps me a lot too.
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Allen jeley January 1, 2017 at 11:49 PM

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