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Build Tip – DB2 Backups

Schedule DB2 backups starting immediately after instance creation – the most common time that restores are needed is during the build process. Of course the most common cause for needing a restore is human error, but that’s something that is important to protect against during build.… Read the rest

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Build Tip – Database Naming

Just a quick tip. When building Commerce environments, select a different database name for each environment (Stage, Prod, etc), even if they are on different database servers. This will help you ensure that you(or developers or whoever else accesses the databases) never do something in the wrong environment.… Read the rest

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dbclean and data pruning intro

One of the most important things for performance of Commerce databases is the proper use of dbclean and data pruning.

It is a simple fact of life for OLTP databases that the same database with less data will perform better. This is especially true of Commerce databases, and even before a site has gone live, I try to have data pruning planned, scripted, and running on a regular basis.… Read the rest

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What is a “Volatile” table?

There is a flag that can be set on DB2 tables to mark them as “Volatile”. But not everyone knows what a volatile table is or what this does, so I thought I’d write a quick post on it.

A true volatile table is one that is used only for transient data – data that is put into tables and then quickly removed, meaning that a table marked as volatile could have zero rows one minute, 40,000 the next, and then back to zero.… Read the rest

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