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Physical Database Design
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Physical Database Design

by Sam S. Lightstone, Toby J. Teorey, Tom Nadeau
July 2010
Intermediate to advanced
448 pages
12h 22m
English
Morgan Kaufmann
Content preview from Physical Database Design
416 Index
Hybrid OLAP (HOLAP), 319
Impact-first waterfall strategy, 170–72
Index ANDing, 134, 136
Indexed nested-loop joins, 65–66
cases, 66
defined, 65
example query, 65–66
See also Joins; Nested-loop joins
Indexes, 8–9
access methods, 55
adding only when necessary, 57
attributes for, use of, 57
bitmap, 9, 25, 54, 58
B+tree, 16–20, 54
cardinality, 58, 219
clustered, 54, 56, 60, 138, 139
composite, 21, 54
covering, 54, 58, 60
defined, 8
dense, 55, 60
design, counting for, 180
as dominant design requirement,
171
hash, 9
hash table, 54
join, 25, 62–69, 113–15
limiting to, 261
maintenance, 57–58
multicolumn, 227
multiple, B+tree for, 22
nonclustered, 9
nonunique, 8
query performance and, 58
redundant, 56–57
repartitioned, 113, 121
secondary, 8, 113
sparse, 55, 60
starting with, 174 ...
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