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Re: dbms_utility.get_hash_value

From: Connor McDonald <connor_mcdonald_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 22:08:30 +0000
Message-ID: <3DC1A9DE.41B5@yahoo.com>


Joseph Pepin wrote:
>
> Anybody know what's the algorithm behind this function?

Its not published but if you search the web for hashing functions you can see a number of variants. Given that Oracle recommend an binary power for the hash size, there's a couple of hash functions out there that also recommend this...so that might be a clue

hth
connor

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Received on Thu Oct 31 2002 - 16:08:30 CST

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