RE: RE: How does Oracle keep B-tree indexes to 3 levels?

  • From: "Niall Litchfield" <n-litchfield@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2004 14:11:21 +0000

Shouldn't the first eg read

    x
   /  \
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or am I getting my DBMSs mixed up again.=20
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Niall Litchfield
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: hamcdc@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: 06 February 2004 13:20
> To: hamcdc@xxxxxxxxxxx; oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: RE: How does Oracle keep B-tree indexes to 3 levels?
>
>
>   x
>  / \
> x   x
>
> This is my pictorial representation of a simple b-tree index.
>  A simpler one
> follows:
>
>  x
>
> hth
> connor
>
>  --- ryan.gaffuri@xxxxxxx wrote: > academic textbooks have them. The
> silbershatz book 'database
> systems concepts' has it in chapter
> > 12.
> > >
> > > From: "Prem Khanna J" <jprem@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Date: 2004/02/05 Thu PM 11:57:29 EST
> > > To: <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > CC: <cary.millsap@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Subject: RE: How does Oracle keep B-tree indexes to 3 levels?
> > >
> > > Hi Cary & List ,
> > >
> > > i have been long trying to get a pictorial representation
> > > of a simple b-tree index and how it changes as the
> > > index grows . Though i read the docs , still i'm not
> > > able to say "okay , this is how b-tree index works" .
> > >
> > > Has anyone got something like what i'm looking for ?
> > >
> > > Just curious to know :
> > > Cary , what does  * Nullius in verba * mean ?
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Prem.
> > >
> > > >>-----Original Message-----
> > > >>From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > >>
> > > >>You get a new level only if the parent node splits propagate
> > > >>all the way
> > > >>to the index root node. Jonathan Lewis and Steve Adams
> have some good
> > > >>tests in their courses that use block dumps to show how Oracle
> > > >>redistributes keys in branch blocks when nodes split.
> > > >>
> > > >>Yes, Oracle index nodes are one block apiece.
> > >
> > > >>Cary Millsap
> > > >>* Nullius in verba *
> > >
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