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Taming Trees: B-Trees

(Rod Stephens) The previous article in this series on trees showed how to build a sorted binary tree. Inserting and locating items in a sorted tree is relatively quick and easy, so it’s natural to wonder if you could use a sorted tree as an index for a database. To find a record, you could look up i

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Merge Sort

(Jim Mischel) The most common method of sorting a large file is to sort parts of the file, save those parts to disk, and then merge the parts together into the final output. Let me illustrate, using a very small example, how this is done.

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Taming Trees: Parsing and Sorting

(Rod Stephens) The first part of this series explained basic tree terminology and showed how to build a simple binary tree in Visual Basic or C#. It also explained how to perform traversals of trees but the only really practical application it showed was how to make a tree draw itself. Thats pretty

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Crystal Reports.NET

(John Charles Olamendy) This article is intended to illustrate how to build reports using Crystal Report.NET. Reports are important components of enterprise applications and are mainly used to provide a descriptive and summary view of your data in order to discover information in huge volume of data