This is a complete tutorial and hands-on guide to all the new features of DB2 Universal Database Version 5. This is a comprehensive guide to designing, administering and optimizing a DB2 Universal Server database. With this book, the reader will learn to build secure distributed databases and replication into a network environment, gain in-depth information on making your information web-accessible and gain valuable insight into parallel processing for data warehousing. There is an emphasis on how DB2 can improve the productivity and profitability of the reader's organization, while it covers installation and configuration, day-to-day database administration, commands, performance, tuning and troubleshooting.