Variable Length Records Management....
Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2001 23:30:22 GMT
Message-ID: <3b23186c$0$255$45beb828_at_newscene.com>
Hi, I am trying to find some information on managing variable length records on a low level within a database. By variable length, I mean records that can be from 1 byte to a few hundred MB (or more) in size.
I've seen a few techniques which may be applicable such as adapting a general file system block based design or stuffing multiple variable length (smaller) records into a larger (but small enough to quickly be able to reorganize) block.
However, there are a number of issues that I haven't seen
well addressed in the literature I have seen such as freelist
management for large scale databases. In addition, most
of the literature covering this issue has been rather sketchy
at best. I'm sure there is a reasonable number of papers on
this somewhere -- just that I have missed them somehow.
Does anyone know of any books or papers that cover
this in detail? It is amazing how much literature is on
Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you,
-Art Received on Sun Jul 22 2001 - 01:30:22 CEST