File organization & File access
File Organization
Serial file organization
The features of serial file orgnization:
- Records enter file in chronogical order.
- But otherwise, there are no particular order.
- Records can only be accessed sequentially/in sequential order.
- A typical use is for bank to record the transactions of a customer account.
Sequentail file organization
The features of sequential file orgnization:
- The records are ordered in some way, usually sorted according to the values of the key field.
- Records in a sequential file can only be accessed sequentially/in sequential order.
- It is an improvement to serial file organization. It takes shorter time to search a record in a sequential file than in a serial file.