A mixture of potatoes, meat, and other usually "secret" stuff. Quite tasty.
"Stephen B" <stephen.bell_at_cgi.ca> wrote in message
news:9Olm8.18791$Ff3.2102658_at_news20.bellglobal.com...
> Hi all,
>
> Today I'm reading some documentation on optimizing joins and have come
> across a 'hash join' and the 'hash table' used in the 'hash join'....it
> strikes me
> that in all the Oracle University courses I've taken and the several good
> Oracle reference texts I have everyone uses the term 'hash' without ever
> explaining it ( as in "hash cluster", "hash algorithm")...
>
> It strikes me that although I've read hundreds if not thousands of pages
of
> Oracle reference material over the last ten years I must have missed the
> little pamphlet that defines what on earth a hash is....
>
> Any thoughts on the matter would be deeply appreciated....
>
> In the meantime I'll just keep hashing over the question :)
>
>
> Best regards,
>
> Steve
>
>
Received on Thu Mar 21 2002 - 08:29:46 CST
