A database server must handle increasing read queries; which mechanism explains why response time degrades linearly as a function of records using sequential search?

💡 Explanation

Response time degrades linearly in sequential search because each element in the unsorted data must be checked until the desired record is found; therefore the time increases linearly with the number of records, rather than using a faster, perhaps logarithmic, indexing method.

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