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Storage Manager Interface

The storage manager provides higher levels of system
  • with an abstraction based on relations/pages/tuples
  • which maps down to files/blocks/records (via buffers)
Example: simple scan of a relation:

select student,course from Enrolments

High-level view of result: sequence of tuples.

How is this mapped to accesses to files/blocks/records?