AIncorrect Answer

Insert is expensive.

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BIncorrect Answer

Delete is cheap.

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CCorrect Answer

That's it.

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DIncorrect Answer

Insert is expensive.

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EIncorrect Answer

Seek is cheap.

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Which of the following best describes the costs of the operations insert, delete and seek on a table where records are stored in primary key order? Deleted records may be "flagged".

  1. insert and delete are cheap, seek is expensive

  2. insert and delete are expensive, seek is cheap

  3. insert is expensive, delete and seek are cheap.

  4. insert, delete and seek are all cheap

  5. insert, delete and seek are all expensive