Re: Which of the SYSIBM tables/views show the row count for

["Lukas Beeler" <lukas.beeler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Mar 9, 2008 at 6:02 PM, Joe Pluta <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>  I'm not going to argue with you; you like journals and I think they're
>  often overkill.  But I will say this: journals do NOT protect you from
>  application failures.  If you write bad code, it will write bad
>  transactions, and the journal will happily record them.  The only time a

Thus allowing point-in-time-recovery just before application failure.
You'll still be in a mess and will have a lot of problems fixing
everything up. But a journal can allow you to roll back to consistent
point of the database, they'll also allow you to see which changes
have been written.

I'm not saying Journals are your personal saviour. They are just an
important tool off a system that was setup defensively - like
passwords, object security, encryption, etc.