What is the use Free space in CI ?
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Answer / guest
Free space is used to add records which belong in CI.
Records in a CI are shifted automatically with in the CI to
accommodate the inserted record.
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Answer / mahesh
alreadyy allocated space is used .it uses free space to
insert a records
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Answer / aparajita
freespace increases the size of the data set and it
improves the performance by improving the way fle addition
are processed.
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