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 DB2 LIST TABLES FOR schema_name -- list all tables for particular schema

Tables

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.