Disadvantages of Sequential File Organization
- This results in wasted time as we cannot navigate to the specific desired file. Sequential access is time consuming.
- More space is required of sorted file method.
- Sorting is time and space consuming process.
- The traversal time of the sequential file organization is longer because the system cannot find a certain data in single go. It has to go through the whole sequence of data item.
Sequential File Organization in Database
Sequential file organization is the simplest type of file organization, where files are stored one after the other, rather than storing different files in rows and columns (in a tabular form), storing data in rows. In this article, we will learn about sequential file organization and its advantages and disadvantages in databases. We will understand various methods of sequential file organization.
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