em<strong>Advanced Database Indexing</strong>em begins by introducing basic material on storagemedia including magnetic disks RAID systems and tertiary storage ... » 

emAdvanced Database Indexingem begins by introducing basic material on storagemedia including magnetic disks RAID systems and tertiary storage such asoptical disk and tapes. Typical access methods e.g. Bsupsup trees dynamichash files and secondary key retrieval are also introduced. The remainder ofthe book discusses recent advances in indexing and access methods forparticular database applications. More specifically issues such as externalsorting file structures for intervals temporal access methods spatial andspatiotemporal indexing image and multimedia indexing perfect externalhashing methods parallel access methods concurrency issues in indexing andparallel external sorting are presented for the first time in a single book.br emAdvanced Database Indexingem is an excellent reference for databaseprofessionals and may be used as a text for advanced courses on the topic. «