Department of Computer Science 1411365 DB Design and Implementation

Exercise 3: Solve Exercise 18.18 (a, b and c) from the textbook.

Exercises 18.18. Consider a disk with block size B = 512 bytes. A block pointer is P = 6 bytes long, and a record pointer is PR-7 bytes long. A file has r = 30,000 EMPLOYEE records of fixed length. Each record has the following fields: Name (30 bytes), Ssn (9 bytes), Department_code (9 bytes), Address (40 bytes), Phone (10 bytes), Birth_date (8 bytes), Sex (1 byte), Job code (4 bytes), and Salary (4 bytes, real number). An additional byte is used as a deletion marker. a. Calculate the record size R in bytes. b. Calculate the blocking factor bfr and the number of file blocks b, assum ing an unspanned organization. c. Suppose that the file is ordered by the key field Ssn and we want to con- struct a primary index on Ssn. Calculate (i) the index blocking factor bfr (which is also the index fan-out fo); (ii) the number of first-level index entries and the number of first-level index blocks; (iii) the number of lev- els needed if we make it into a multilevel index; (iv) the total number of blocks required by the multilevel index; and (v) the number of block accesses needed to search for and retrieve a record from the file-given its Ssn value-using the primary index