Database Systems: Design, Implementation, & Management
Database Systems: Design, Implementation, & Management
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ISBN: 9781337627900
Author: Carlos Coronel, Steven Morris
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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Data fragmentation:

Data fragmentation permits to divide a single object into more than one segments or fragments.

  • That single object might be “user database” or “system database”, or table.
  • Store each and every fragment at any site across the network.

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