Continuing from our previous segment, Part 1 of the Journal Entries, in our attempt to insert into our IBM DB2 database table. We stopped and restarted DB2 Services to solidify prior tasks. You might have read the importance of stopping and restarting Services after new configuration of the DB2 database has occurred, example, adding a new Schema, Table, Permissions, and so on. This will help you cut your troubleshooting down and will definitely save you a lot of time and effort. As we move forward, we will start by navigating the IBM Data Studio Task Launcher to familiarize ourselves with the tabs and the tools available. We are going to investigate other means to testing data insertion to our new table, it will be a great benefit to have as many options as possible.

Speaking of options, you can try the following on your own, there is a way to write a Java Application within Data Studio to create a database connection and run a query. This means that you can as well test the insert statement we are about to write without having to leave the tool or environment. We intend to take a look at it and see how that can be done before we end this segment. All of the information about that will be made available in this document for all to see. Without further ado, let's now prepare the steps to write our insert statement using the built-in query tool under the the Task Launcher Develop tab. Again, all areas of interest will be highlighted for your convenience.