Abstract
At the end of this chapter the reader will be able to:
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Explain the concept of an access mechanism
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Define the concept of an index
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Describe a number of different types of access mechanism
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Explain the principle of a B-tree index
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Discuss the functionality of the SQL CREATE INDEX statement
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Reference
Comer, D. (1979). The ubiquitous B-tree. ACM Computing Surveys 11(2): 121–38.
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Beynon-Davies, P. (2004). Access Mechanisms. In: Database Systems. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-230-00107-7_28
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