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For secondary key processing which of the following file organizations is preferred? Give a one line justification:

  1. Indexed sequential file organization.
  2. Two-way linked list.
  3. Inverted file organization.
  4. Sequential file organization.
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Inverted File organization

Because of the following reasons

An index for each secondary key.

· An index entry for each distinct value of the secondary key.

It exhibits better inquiry performance

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