File Organization Flashcards

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What is File Organization?

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File Organization refers to how records and files are organized on a secondary storage device.

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What is Serial File Organization?

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Serial File Organization are transaction files in which the transactions are recorded in the order that they occur

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Sequential File Organization

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sequential file organization, files/records are stored one after the other in a sequential manner.

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Direct File Organization

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Direct (Random) file organization, a hash function is used to calculate the address of the block to store the records.

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Indexed Sequential File

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An indexed sequential file consists of records that can be accessed sequentially.

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