The strategy can retrieve a single record if the equality condition is on a key; multiple records may be retrieved if the indexing field is not a key is

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• Which algorithm uses equality comparison on a key attribute with a primary index to retrieve a single record that satisfies the corresponding equality condition.
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• In a _______ clustering index, the index record contains the search-key value and a pointer to the first data record with that search-key value and the rest of the records will be in the sequential pointers.
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• An                          consists of a search-key value and pointers to one or more records with that value as their search-key value.
• An ____________ consists of a search-key value and pointers to one or more records with that value as their search-key value.
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•                          using a log record sets the data item specified in the log record to the old value.