developerWorks: Leveraging Your Oracle 9i Skills to Learn DB2 UDB for Linux, UNIX and Windows V8 | Linux Today

developerWorks: Leveraging Your Oracle 9i Skills to Learn DB2 UDB for Linux, UNIX and Windows V8

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jan 14, 2004

“If you’re a database specialist interested in growing your DB2
Universal Database skills, there’s a good chance that you’ve
already developed database skills with another relational database
product somewhere along the way. In an earlier developerWorks
article I talked about how to leverage your MS SQL Server 2000
skills to learn DB2 UDB for Linux, UNIX and Windows. Is your
background in Oracle rather than SQL Server? If so, read on. In
this article, we will show you how to use your current knowledge of
Oracle 9i to quickly gain skills in DB2 UDB for Linux, UNIX, and
Windows Version 8.

“In this article, we will use the term ‘Oracle’ to refer to
Oracle 9i Release 2 and ‘DB2 UDB’ to refer to DB2 UDB for Linux,
UNIX, and Windows Version 8…”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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