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Why is hash file is faster than sequential file n odbc stage??

  
Total Answers and Comments: 2 Last Update: June 28, 2009     Asked by: yukthi 
  
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November 08, 2006 00:12:26   
Lavanya        

RE: Why is hash file is faster than sequential file n ...
Hash file is indexed. Also it works under hashing algo. That's why the search is faster in hash file.
 
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June 28, 2009 17:22:36   
aladap12 Member Since: August 2007   Contribution: 5    

RE: Why is hash file is faster than sequential file n odbc stage??
Hash file is datastage internal file. Data will be stored on computer memory..
and works on key column. So retrieval will be faster when compare to hitting the database.

 
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