Memory management during run generation in external sorting

SIGMOD Record

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 472-483

  Larson, Per Åke ^a   Graefe, Goetz ^a  

^a MICROSOFT   (United States)

Author keywords

Last run optimization; Memory management; Merge sort; Replacement selection; Run formation; Sorting; Variable length records

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; MERGING; SORTING; STORAGE ALLOCATION (COMPUTER);

MEMORY MANAGEMENT;

DATABASE SYSTEMS;

EID: 0032091597     PISSN: 01635808     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/276305.276346     Document Type: Article

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