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RE: what's hash-join

From: Christopher Spence <cspence_at_FuelSpot.com>
Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 07:47:14 -0700
Message-ID: <F001.00315A86.20010531073027@fatcity.com>

It will perform better than sort and merge and nested loops in most cases. They tend to be fast. But will not out perform index nested loops in most cases.

Although in some cases a sort and merge can out perform a hash join.

"Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen."

Christopher R. Spence
Oracle DBA
Fuelspot

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What's the performance (gain/loss) on such a join, when would you want to use one?
Kev

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McDonald
Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2001 6:00 AM
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A method of joining two tables. You scan each and use a hashing algorithm to isolate/match keys.

hth
connor


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