DBMS L7 Storage and File Structurer
Channel: Studio IIT Bombay
Date: 2016-04-12

This is 7th session of Database Management Systems workshop arranged for coordinators. It was delivered by Prof. S. Sudarshan from IIT Bombay. 
 
In this session he talked about storage hierarchy, magnetic hard disk mechanism, magnetic disks, disk subsystem, performance measures of disk, flash storage, improvement in performance via parallelism, RAID levels, hardware issues, file organization, fixed length records, free lists, variable length records - slotted page structure, organisation of records in files, data dictionary storage and relational representation of system metadata.
 
The syntax used in the video title is as follows :
DBMS - Database Management Systems
L7 - Lecture 7
 
This Database Management Systems workshop for coordinators was conducted from October 19 to October 23, 2010, under T10KT project, sponsored by NMEICT, MHRD, Government of India, New Delhi.
 
This workshop had been arranged for teachers who attended it at IIT Bombay as a coordinator from the respective Remote Centers to get trained by IIT Bombay faculty.