This book describes how to use DB2 extenders to prepare and maintain a DB2 database for image, audio, or video data. It also describes how you can use user-defined functions (UDFs) and application programming interfaces (APIs) provided by DB2 extenders to access and manipulate these types of data. By incorporating UDFs in your program's SQL statements, and incorporating APIs, you can access nontraditional data, such as images and video clips, and traditional numeric data and character data.
References in this book to "DB2" refer to DB2 UDB.