DB2 For Beginners

IBM Db2 is a family of related data management products,

including relational database servers, developed and marketed by IBM.

This course provides you the basic understanding of concepts of database, database installation and management. At the end of the course you should be equipped with some understanding of database management concepts.

In this course we will interact with the DB2 Server and run some SQL queries on the database. We will create a database and multiple tables and perform some data manipulation and CRUD operations on the database.

RDBMS stands for Relational Database Management System.

RDBMS is the basis for SQL, and for all modern database systems such as MS SQL Server, IBM DB2, Oracle, MySQL, and Microsoft Access.

The data in RDBMS is stored in database objects called tables. A table is a collection of related data entries and it consists of columns and rows.

Database skills are in high demand due to the volume, speed and complexity of data that is increasing daily. We interact with a variety of data in our daily lives from social media to banking and health.

Topics include:

• Installing IBM DB2  Server

• Installing IBM Data Studio

• Basic Database  Concepts

• Creating Database

• Creating Tables

• Inserting Records into Tables

• Reading data from a database

• Updating database records

• Deleting Records

• Truncating Table

• Dropping Table

• Aggregate Functions

• Sorting Data

• Filtering Data

• Excluding Duplicate Records

• Using LIKE Operator and WHERE clause