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Storage Management (cont)

Aims of storage management in DBMS:
  • provide view of data as collection of pages/tuples
  • map from database objects (e.g. tables) to disk files
  • manage transfer of data to/from disk storage
  • use buffers to minimise disk/memory transfers
  • interpret loaded data as tuples/records
  • basis for file structures used by access methods