Accessing online help – IBM GC09-2830-00 User Manual

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SmartGuide

Helps You to...

How to Access...

Create Table

Select basic data types, and create a primary
key for the table.

From the Control Center, click with
the right mouse button on the
Tables

icon and select

Create

->Table using SmartGuide.

Create Table Space

Create a new table space.

From the Control Center, click with
the right mouse button on the
Table spaces

icon and select

Create

->Table space using

SmartGuide

.

Index

Advise which indexes to create and drop for
all your queries.

From the Control Center, click with
the right mouse button on the
Index

icon and select

Create

->Index using SmartGuide.

Performance
Configuration

Tune the performance of a database by
updating configuration parameters to match
your business requirements.

From the Control Center, click with
the right mouse button on the
database you want to tune and
select Configure using
SmartGuide

.

Restore Database

Recover a database after a failure. It helps
you understand which backup to use, and
which logs to replay.

From the Control Center, click with
the right mouse button on the
database you want to restore and
select Restore->Database using
SmartGuide

.

Accessing Online Help

Online help is available with all DB2 components. The following table
describes the various types of help. You can also access DB2 information
through the Information Center. For information see “Accessing Information
with the Information Center” on page 154.

Type of Help

Contents

How to Access...

Command Help

Explains the syntax of
commands in the command
line processor.

From the command line processor in interactive
mode, enter:

? command

where command is a keyword or the entire
command.

For example, ? catalog displays help for all the
CATALOG commands, while ? catalog database
displays help for the CATALOG DATABASE
command.

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