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From: staceyc@sco.COM (Stacey Campbell)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: What is a B+ tree? (was Re: Index Managers and B+ trees)
Keywords: B tree, B+ tree
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Date: 19 Mar 90 17:04:05 GMT
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In article <1467@mountn.dec.com> wallis@labc.dec.com (Barry L. Wallis) writes:
>What is the difference between a B tree and a B+ tree?

"The index set is actually a tree structure index to the sequence set; in
fact, it is the index set that is the real B tree, strictly speaking.
(The combination of index set and sequence set is sometimes called a B+
tree.)"

C.J. Date, An Introduction to Database Systems, 3rd edn, pg 47.

(4 edn, pg 64)
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