He may be referring to the hash buckets in relation to Oracle latch:
enqueue hash chains.
"First of all Oracle server will use hash function to determine the
hash bucket, where resource structure is allocated. It will acquire
enqueue hash chain latch and record statistics of latch operation in V
$LATCH"
Or just in general, when using a hash function to break something up
into manegable chunks, each result set for a given hash is referred to
as a hash bucket. Hash joins, hash cluster tables, partitioning by
hash...
Received on Mon Apr 16 2007 - 12:37:53 CDT
