Re: access path -- MIDRANGE-L

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An access path is just the 'view' of a physical file based on the key, 
select/omit criterira etc of a logical file.

Leif Svalgaard <leif@xxxxxxxx> wrote:I have been working on and with this 
machine for upwards
of two sunspot cycles, and I have a confession to make:
I see references on this list and elsewhere to an "access 
path" to a file. I have studied the internals of this machine, 
I have looked far and wide, but I'm still baffled: what the
h*** is an "access path"? where is it? what does it do?
Why must it be "rebuilt" at times and what does that entail?
Somebody enlighten me...


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Warmest Regards,

Rich


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