File Structures

Dr Folk was my graduate advisor and I worked with Bill Z at TMS. This book actually reflects some of the technology we worked with there as well as other thoughtful and useful ideas in storing data on disk.

Este libro es una exelente referencia al la estructura de archvivos, gracias a como los autores desarrollan el texto, de una manera deliciosa que profundiza en los problemas de almacenar en archivos, poco a poco y profundamente, y lo que es más importante haciendo que el lector se de cuenta de por que realmente la necesidad de cada nueva estructura de datos revisada. La única pena es que ya es un libro bastante viejo yen ciertas lieneas el lector puede pensar que el libro esta desfasado, pero en lo verdaderamente importante, lo que el libro cuenta sigue estando vigente y lo estara por que al fin y al cabo las bases no cambian.

There are many Computer Science references that show several common sorting techniques but most stop there. This book has what no other that I've seen had: A concise discussion of sorting data that won't fit into storage at once. It's easy to sort items when you can load them all into memory. Many books show how to do that. This is the first book that I've seen that explains, in detail, methods for sorting data that is too large to fit in memory at once. Techniques are shown, then refined. An amazing book. Although it's a textbook, it's an excellent reference for all programmers. Even if you think you know a great deal about file structures and/or sorting data, you will learn something from the techniques shown in this book. I couldn't put it down.

As a senior software designer, I helped implement file structures for dBASE, cc:Mail, Collabra Share and other commercial software packages. I spent 16 years learning this subject, and Folk and Zoellick taught me a few things in addition to presenting the material so logically, so usefully, that no one need write a book on this subject again

The metodology used by the authors to write the book is really excelent. Starting every chapter with a very interesting introduction and covering all the aspects of the inteligent design of file structures with many examples in pseudocode. The references to other books and papers in the end of each chapter makes you fell secure. The index of key words (with a small summary) is really usefull, when you finish reading a chapter you can test yourself to see if you really know it (when you have little time, for example, a day before exams, then it's much more usefull). The exercises and programming projects (always using real world problems) after this index closes each chapter nicelly. The book also discusses the problems with implementations in C and Pascal. The best one !!! Congratulations to Folk and Zoellick.