What is a cluster?
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Answer / jynthe
A cluster can be thought of as a logical dataset consisting
of two separate physical datasets namely data component and
index component
Data component contains the actual data, and the index
component contains the index(ie) the key values which we
have set.
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Answer / guest
A cluster is the combination of the index, sequence set and
data portions of the dataset. The operating system gives
program access to the cluster, ie. to all parts of the
dataset simultaneously.
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