IBM introduced Multi-Row FETCH to enable users to process multiple records (rows) simultaneously – saving time and reducing CPU overhead – a significant cost factor for DB2 shops.

The explosion of big data has presented many challenges for today's database administrators (DBAs), who are responsible for managing far more data than ever before. And with more programs being ...

When ROWSET_SIZE=1, only one row is retrieved at a time. The higher the value for ROWSET_SIZE=, the more rows the DB2 engine retrieves in one fetch operation. This option reduces the amount of I/O ...