How do you calculate record size of an alternate cluster?

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How do you calculate record size of an alternate cluster?

Post by Krishna » Sun Jul 19, 2009 8:34 pm

How do you calculate record size of an alternate cluster? Give your values for both unique and non-unique.

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Post by Krishna » Sun Jul 19, 2009 8:35 pm

Unique Case: 5 + ( alt-key-length + primary-key )
Nonunique Case: 5 + ( alt-key-length + n * primary-key )
where n = # of duplicate records for the alternate key

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