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From: mpledger@cti1.UUCP (Mark Pledger)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Variable length records
Message-ID: <362@cti1.UUCP>
Date: 8 Jan 91 12:30:30 GMT
References: <9385@latcs1.oz.au>
Organization: Comprehensive Technologies Int., Arlington VA
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ang@latcs1.oz.au (Ang Cheng Chai) writes:

>Hi there....
>    Would it be too brash of me to request for pointers to literature
>as to the options one has when trying to implement a variable length
>records DB?
>    I am trying to cater for a situation where the data structure of
>the records frequently get modified and am trying to avoid having to
>reorganize the database.

Check out an excellent book on file structures called:

   FILE STRUCTURES:  A Conceptual Toolkit, by Folk & Zoellick

It has C and Pascal algorithm for different file structures.  One of
these file structures is of course variable length fields/records.

Hope it helps.



-- 
Sincerely,


Mark Pledger

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