3. Simple Sorting
In This Chapter
As soon as you create a significant database, you’ll probably think of reasons to sort it in various ways. You need to arrange names in alphabetical order, students by grade, customers by ZIP code, home sales by price, cities in order of increasing population, countries by GNP, stars by magnitude, and so on.
Sorting data may also be a preliminary step to searching it. As we saw in Chapter 2, “Arrays,” a binary search, which can be applied only to sorted data, is much faster than a linear search.
Because sorting is so important and potentially so time-consuming, it has been the subject of extensive ...
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