Cost Model for Our Analysis
•As a good approximation, we ignore CPU costs:
–B:  The number of data pages
–R:  Number of records per page
–D:  (Average) time to read or write disk page
–Measuring number of page I/O’s ignores gains of pre-fetching blocks of pages; thus, even I/O cost is only approximated.  
–Average-case analysis; based on several simplistic assumptions.
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