I have posted a number of tips to use DB2. If you haven’t used DB2 before, it is one of the best databases out there, and best of all, it is available completely free from IBM. Get your DB2 discovery kit from IBM. As Grant Allen puts it in Beggining DB2, “IBM has even thought of those of you who can’t get to their website to obtain DB2. You can e-mail or telephone IBM’s DB2 team to arrange to have the Discovery Kit shipped to you.”