APPENDIX 1

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Review of Trees

This appendix provides a brief review of trees. You should pay specific attention to the section on B-trees, since most DBMS suites implement them by default. Note: This appendix is not meant to replace a full course (and text) in data structures. It should therefore be regarded as an overview, not a final authority on the subject matter. This review covers the following sub-topics:

  • Introduction to Trees
  • Binary Trees
  • Threaded Binary Trees
  • Binary Search Trees
  • Height-Balanced Trees
  • Heaps
  • M-way Search Trees and B-trees
  • Summary and Concluding Remarks

A1.1 Introduction to Trees

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