The authoritative guide for IBM's new 'Lite' version of DB2 -- a new $500 million initiative to win small-medium sized businesses. Express products are a major initiative for IBM in Q3 2004 and beyond Teaches best practices for developing GUI driven applications using the most popular languages in the industry- Java and Microsoft Visual Basic Broad coverage from "Getting Started" through "Performance Tuning" and "Trouble Shooting" IBM has had great success with DB2 in large corporations. However, the small and medium sized businesses have been unwilling or unable to invest in the DB2 infrastructure and so Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL and a number of other database programs have taken these markets. DB2 Express is meant to knock these out and to give IBM a database configurable in these "smaller environments". This book is the ONLY book available on a very new hot product that IBM will be marketing EXTENSIVELY. Our book is a concise, straight-forward approach to learning DB2 Express and how to leverage its tools and autonomic capabilities. It provides expert tips on everything from developing, tuning, deploying and maintaining applications. It teaches the reader how to avoid common mistakes and develop solid, yet simple, database maintenance plans.