Download or read book A Guide to DB2 written by C. J. Date and published by Addison Wesley Publishing Company. This book was released on 1984 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: User's guide to the IBM relational data base management system DB2 designed for the MVS operating system (Multiple Virtual Systems) and its companion products QMF and DXT - gives an overview incl. The Structural Query Language; covers system structure, data definition, data manipulation and information retrieval operations, data processing, the system catalog and view mechanism, data protection, application programming, storage structure, interactive interface, the query management facility, etc. Bibliography, flow charts.