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Access Methods and its types

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  • Sequential access
  • Direct access
  • Techniques of Access Methods 

Access Methods

File stores information. When it is used, this information must be accessed and read into Computer memory. There are several methods to access the information in the file. For example, we have sequential access and direct access. 

Sequential access 

Sequential access is based upon a tape model of a file. Most of the operations on file are reads and writes. Here the file is assessed sequentially. In sequential access, a program skip forward or backward n records. 

Direct access 

Direct access is based upon a disk model of a file . Here the file is viewed as a sequence of blocks or records. In this method, any block can be read or written. 

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