Re: What is Parallel DML?

On Fri, 27 Jul 2001, jonathan_at_jlcomp.demon.co.uk wrote:

> If every other block is buffered, the scan will read one, skip
> one, read one, skip one ... and use 8,000 read requests to get
> the rest of the data.

So, moving the head to the correct block on disk (which in this case is the next block not in cache) is the definition of read request?

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