DB2 9.7 is officially available! Visit our Trial Downloads page to download your trial version. See for yourself how you can:
- Save even more with deep compression:
- Multiple algorithms for automatic index compression.
- Automatic compression for temporary tables.
- Intelligent compression of large objects and XML.
- Gain business intelligence from your XML data.
- Expanded database feature support for the XML data type.
- Simplify management of schemas, tables and data.
- Protect your business with more flexible security.
- Improve business responsiveness with workload management enhancements.
- Leverage greater insight for database tuning.
- Accelerate development and deployment of DB2 applications
What sandbox participants are saying
“We've been testing for six months and have found the technologies very reliable and stable. … These enhancements are very valuable to our business.”
“XML in a data warehouse was a very important feature to implement.”
“ This will increase our development and testing productivity.”
Next steps
Special Offer for Business Partners in the DB2 Early Access Program, from VMware
IBM and VMware are making it easier than ever to host DB2 databases in virtual environments. VMware is offering business partners in the DB2 Early Access Program over $14,000 worth of VMware software licenses and technical support for NO CHARGE.
