How to Repair Corrupt Tables and Tablespaces in DB2 Database?
DB2 is the database from the family of Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) which is developed by IBM which is based on relational model. The Multiple Virtual Storage (MVS) mainframe platform redesign it as a DB2 “common server” product which is designed with general code base to different operating system. It helps to store data in a tabular format so that you can able to execute the requested query by taking less than half of the second and results displayed accurately. Users can store and manipulate large amount of data using the file. Users can efficiently perform operation on the data in an efficient manner. In most of the organizations db2 file format files are used for storing and manipulating large amount of data in efficient manner. But these tablespace and database may get corrupted or damaged due to various logical and physical factors. The logical corruption is caused due to improper server shutdown, virus attack, human errors, physical factors and many more which makes the records stored in the database inaccessible. When the db2 files get corrupted then it becomes very difficult situation for a user to recover back the corrupted db2 file. So if we know the reason behind the corruption of db2 file then you can prevent the db2 file to get corrupted. The reasons behind the corruption: •
Due to abnormal system or server shutdown db2 file can get corrupted.
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Attack of harmful malware or virus infection can cause db2 file corruption.
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It can get corrupted due to any kind of Network issues and error in network.