Is it necessary that all the segments in a Dl/i database
have key fields ?

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Database Records are accessed in Root key sequence when
using HIDAM database. The HIDAM index stores one record for
each root key and its RBA. However you can also access the
records using an alternate sequence field by using
secondary indexes.

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