Question: P . S . It is a database question for indexing, block factor index etc. Appreciate your help to explain in details. I have tried
PS It is a database question for indexing, block factor index etc. Appreciate your help to explain in details. I
have tried GPT but I am still not sure about the answers. Please kindly explain it Many thanks.
QConsider a disk with a block size of bytes. A file has BOOK records of fixed length. Each
record has the following fields: BookID bytes Title bytes Author bytes Genre bytes
Suppose the data file is clustered by the nonkey field Genre with a separate block cluster for each group of
records and we want to construct a single layer clustering index on Genre.
Assume the unique Genre values are evenly distributed on the records and a block pointer is bytes long.
The size of the nextblock pointer is negligible and does not affect the blocking factor.
Calculate the average number of block accesses needed to search for and retrieve a record from the data file,
given its Genre value, by implementing the abovementioned index as a singlelevel index.
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