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Clarification and disambiguation of terminology in order to focus on clear, consistent, distinct, and easily recognized usages for databases and database technology.

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Heap-Organized Tables and 'Heap' the Data Structure

AFAIK, heap-organized tables, which are default in Oracle and PostgreSQL, are just tables without any clustered index. I'm wondering where the term 'heap' got its name. It's just a pile of data, not …
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