Get 5% Off My Latest Db2 Book for the Holidays
Craig Mullins
Craig Mullins, President & Principal Consultant at Mullins Consulting, Inc. IBM Gold Consultant and IBM Champion for Data and AI
My latest book is titled "A Guide to Db2 Performance for Application Developers" and it was written to provide advice for application programmers to write more efficient application code to access Db2 databases. Whether you write applications on the mainframe or distributed systems, this book will teach you practices, methods, and techniques for optimizing your SQL and applications as you build them. Write efficient applications and become your DBA's favorite developer by learning the techniques outlined in this book!
If you write code and access data in a Db2 database, then this book is for you. The methods outlined in this book will help you improve the performance of your Db2 applications. The material is written for all Db2 professionals, whether you are coding on z/OS (the mainframe) or on Linux, Unix or Windows (distributed systems). When there are pertinent differences between the platforms it is explained in the text.
The focus of the book is on programming, coding and developing applications. As such, it does not focus on DBA, design, and data modeling issues, nor does it cover most Db2 utilities, DDL, and other non-programming related details. If you are a DBA, the book should still be of interest to you because DBAs are responsible for overall Db2 performance. Therefore, it makes sense to understand the programming aspect of performance.
By following the principles in this book you will be able to write code that does not require significant remedial, after-the-fact modifications by performance analysts and DBAs. In fact, if you follow the guidelines in this book your DBAs will love you!
The assumption is made that the reader has some level of basic SQL knowledge and therefore it will not cover how to write Db2 SQL code or code a Db2 program. It is also important to point out that the book does not rehash material that is freely available in Db2 manuals that can be downloaded or read online.
So what about that discount you may be asking? Well, head on over to https://store.bookbaby.com//bookshop/book/index.aspx?bookURL=A-Guide-to-Db2-Performance-for-Application-Developers&b=p_bu-ba-or and use code 5poff to get a 5% discount on the print edition of the book. If you want an ebook, no problem, you can buy the ebook using the same link (but no discount code as the ebook already costs less).
Hurry over and get your copy (or a copy for the Db2 developer in your life) for the holidays... the discount is only good through the end of the year (2019).