Practice - File Organization and Indexing
Practice Questions
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What is a block in the context of databases?
💡 Hint: Think of the size of storage units.
Describe what a heap file is.
💡 Hint: What happens if you toss papers in a box?
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Interactive Quizzes
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What is the smallest unit of data that can be read from or written to a disk?
💡 Hint: Think about the units of storage.
True or False: A heap file is organized in a specific logical order.
💡 Hint: Recall how records are stored in heap files.
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Challenge Problems
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You have a dataset of customer orders that requires both fast retrieval and frequent updates. Which file organization would you recommend and why?
💡 Hint: Consider how often you need to read versus write.
Discuss how you would handle collisions in hash file organization and the implications for performance.
💡 Hint: What strategies can reduce performance impact?
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