04 September 2009

Why are I/O costs important in a DBMS?

I/O costs are of primary important to a DBMS because these costs typically dominate the time it takes to run most database operations. Optimizing the amount of I/O’s for an operation can result in a substantial increase in speed in the time it takes to run that operation.

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  1. these costs are important for executing most of the data base operation.
    optimizing the amount in i/o for an operation can result in a substantial increase in speed in the time it takes to run that operation.

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