DB2 Universal Database v7.1: Application Development Certification Guide

By Steve Sanyal, David Martineau, Kevin Gashyna

The first start-to-finish guide to IBM's brand-new DB2 Application Developer certification exam! Write DB2 applications using Embedded SQL, ADO, CLI/ODBC, JDBC, SQLJ, Perl DBI, stored procedures, and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0130913677
• ISBN13: 9780130913678
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Length: 287 Pages
• Weight: 1.39 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.8" x 7.0"

Customer Reviews

Certification Guaranteed!

This book made the difference between a PASS/FAIL on the IBM-514 DB2 UDB V7.1 Family Application Development exam. I have extensive experience in developing DB2 applications on the OS/390 platform but none in the Linux/Unix/Windows environments. Having taken the sample certification exam I knew I needed to "bone-up" on the JDBC/SQLJ, CLI/ODBC and dynamic sql topics to guarantee a first-time pass. Personally, I concentrated on the corresponding chapters in this book (3 through 7) and this proved more than sufficient to make the grade. If your goal is to pass the 514 exam and you already feel comfortable with developing DB2 SQL applications then I would strongly suggest limiting your study purchases to this book. Incidentally, good luck in the exam (if applicable)!

A great book for experienced developer

Background info:I have about 2 years working experience in developing application using embedded SQL to get data from DB2 for AIX. This experience has helped me a lot to understand the contents of this book and it helps to pass the application development test. I spent about 4 weeks to read this book and tried the sample test at the end of the book. My tip: after reading the whole book, try the sample test and rate your score, but don't check for the wrong/right answer you have choosen. Try to figure out by yourself, which topic you think that you have problem to answer and re-read the book. Using this technique I got about 75% of the sample test on a second try. After that I took the real exam, and passed with the score of 72%. If you have some experience (at least 6 months IMO) on developing application that gets data from DB2 (either with embedded SQL or JDBC/ODBC), then you shouldn't have any problem to pass the test by using only this book as a study guide.

DB2 Expert

This is all what you need to pass. Actually, it contains a lot of helpfull information for the job but too much to prepare for the exam. Exam was pretty much easy but without this book and professional experience in the programming field,it would be difficult to pass...

chapters from 6.1 DB2 book on app development - nicely updat

This is a "sister" book of "DB2 Universal Database Version 7.1 for UNIX, Linux, Windows and OS/2 Database, ISBN 0130913669". See my review on this book - I talk there about both of them, also about certification tests.