• The physical data model  defines concepts to implement the logical data model
  • It considers aspects of efficiency and fault-tolerance
  • Why learning physical data model concepts?
    • To be able to choose between DBMS brand names
    • To be able to use DBMS facilities for performance tuning
    • For example, if a query is running slow,
      • one may create an index to speed it up
    • For example, if loading of a large number of tuples takes for ever
      • one may drop indices on the table before the inserts
      • and recreate index after inserts are done

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