DATA STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL USING UNIQUE IDENTIFIERS

摘要

An arrangement of data in a database is provided. The arrangement includes a selected number of file locations (34), each file location (34) including a document which includes a unique primary identification number (34-1). The arrangement further includes a plurality of groups (36) of the file locations, each group (36) including a specific number of locations NFG for files in the group and including a unique secondary identification number (40) which is defined by the absolute value of the first unique primary identification number of a file location in said group of file locations divided by NFG files. The number of a file locations is a preselected number of file locations which corresponds to a number of documents which are capable of being stored in at least a particular section of the database.