== Syntax differences between other databases and IBM DB2 ==
{| border cellspacing=0 cellpadding=4
!MySQL!!IBM DB2
|-

|SELECT 1 FROM $table LIMIT 1
|SELECT COUNT(*) FROM SYSIBM.SYSTABLES ST
WHERE ST.NAME = '$table' AND ST.CREATOR = '$schema'
|-
|MySQL code tries to read one row and interprets lack of error as proof of existence.
|DB2 code counts the number of TABLES of that name in the database. There ought to be 1 for it to exist.
|-
|BEGIN
|(implicit)
|-
|TEXT
|VARCHAR(255) or CLOB
|-
|TIMESTAMPTZ
|TIMESTAMP
|-
|BYTEA
|VARGRAPHIC(255)
|-
|DEFAULT nextval('some_kind_of_sequence'),
|GENERATED ALWAYS AS IDENTITY (START WITH 0, INCREMENT BY 1),
|-
|CIDR
|VARCHAR(255)
|-
|LIMIT 10
|FETCH FIRST 10 ROWS ONLY
|-
|ROLLBACK TO
|ROLLBACK TO SAVEPOINT
|-
|RELEASE
|RELEASE SAVEPOINT
|}
== See also ==
*[http://ca.php.net/manual/en/function.db2-connect.php PHP Manual for DB2 functions]