@bharath: yeah i was also thinking that we could store a pointer to a data
block in which multiple records can be stored.....but i think for searching
a record we have to 1st get to that block and then search the record in that
block........

On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 5:31 PM, bharath <[email protected]> wrote:

> @Puneet, to store anything on a machine, you will need to have a
> pointer to it else there is no question of accessing it. I am guessing
> the question emphasized on reducing the size of the B+ tree. Also,
> with B+ trees, you have sequence pointers at the data record level.
> Therefore, if these data records are stored in a single chunk,
> bringing the chunk into memeory is good enough. An additional storage
> structure will not be required.
>
> On Jul 28, 1:27 am, Puneet Gautam <[email protected]> wrote:
> > @bharath: To store the bunch of records together also, we gonna need
> > another useful ds like "linked list" or "array" which again points to
> > the problem of excessive storage or excessive pointers...
> > correct me if am not..!
> >
> > On 7/28/11, bharath <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > > @Dumanshu: A B+ tree is a multi-level index. It indexes the index
> > > until the final level is small enough to fit into a data block that
> > > can fit in memory.
> >
> > > On Jul 27, 10:11 pm, Dumanshu <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >> Use multilevel indexing
> >
> > >> On Jul 27, 11:07 pm, himanshu kansal <[email protected]>
> > >> wrote:
> >
> > >> > if u hv say 20 million records and u have to create a b+ tree then
> you
> > >> > might be storing 20 million pointers at the leaf level....how can u
> > >> > optimize this(using b+ tree only)???????
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