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What is normalization and what are the five normal forms?

Normalization is a design procedure for representing data in tabular format The five normal forms are progressive rules to represent the data with minimal redundancy.

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What is lock escalation?

Promoting a PAGE lock-size to table or tablespace lock-size when a transaction has acquired more locks than specified in NUMLKTS. Locks should be taken on objects in single tablespace for escalation to occur.

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What are the various locks available?

SHARE, EXCLUSIVE, UPDATE

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Can I use LOCK TABLE on a view?

No. To lock a view, take lock on the underlying tables.

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What is ALTER?

SQL command used to change the definition of DB2 objects.