CS157b
Chris Pollett
Feb 6, 2023
Record: | name | address | gender | birthdate | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Byte positions: | 0 | 30 | 286 | 287 | 297 |
Sometimes we need to store additional information besides the value of each field. This data could be things like:
Record: | schema ref | length | timestamp | name | address | gender | birthdate | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Byte positions: | 0 | 4 | 8 | 12 | 44 | 300 | 304 | 316 |
header | Rec `1` | ... | Rec `n` |
There are several ways to represent addresses in the database address space:
Which of the following statements is true?