Why is random access preferable over sequential access for supporting external tables?

What will be an ideal response?

In random access, you can directly access an arbitrary element without having to traverse every intervening element from the beginning. In sequential access, we would have far more memory accesses which would hurt performance.

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When filtering data, the ________ type could be used, which allows you to filter data in a form or datasheet

A) advanced filtering B) basic filtering C) Filter by Form D) Filter by Selection

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(Searching for Characters) Write a program based on the program of Exercise 22.25 that inputs several lines of text and uses function strchr to determine the total number of occurrences of each letter of the alphabet in the text. Uppercase and lowercase letters should be counted together. Store the totals for each letter in an array, and print the values in tabular format after the totals have

been determined. What will be an ideal response?

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