The Berkeley DB Book

CHAPTER 6 Advanced Operations

In the last two chapters, I introduced you to the basic database operations and database architecture. I broke up the discussion on database operations into multiple parts, to be covered in different chapters, because it's impossible to introduce everything at once. Without an understanding of the basic operations, it's difficult to understand the architecture. And without an understanding of the architecture, it's difficult to grasp advanced operations. Now that you're familiar with the architecture, you're ready to learn advanced operations.

The last two chapters covered the basic insert, retrieve, update, delete, and cursor operations. In this chapter, I'll go over advanced cursor operations, data-alignment issues, ...