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Disk Storage, File Organizations, and Buffer Management
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Memory hierarchy and disk characteristics, page/block layout, record formats, heap files, sorted files, and the buffer pool (replacement policies, pinning). How the storage manager supports higher layers.
Goal
Describe how tuples are laid out on pages and files; explain buffer-pool mechanics and the I/O cost model that drives index and query algorithm design.
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