The relevant subset of data values gets copied into the hash map. That means the rows and columns required from the table, not the whole table. You might be interested doing a hash join with event 10104 set - level 12 is an option with Oracle 9, otherwise just: alter session set events '10104 trace name context forever'; execute query that does one hash join. alter session set events '10104 trace name context off'; You'll probably recognise references to all the bits you would expect to see. Regards Jonathan Lewis http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk The educated person is not the person who can answer the questions, but the person who can question the answers -- T. Schick Jr Next public appearances: March 2004 Hotsos Symposium - The Burden of Proof March 2004 Charlotte NC OUG - CBO Tutorial April 2004 Iceland One-day tutorials: http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk/tutorial.html Three-day seminar: see http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk/seminar.html ____UK___February ____UK___June The Co-operative Oracle Users' FAQ http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk/faq/ind_faq.html ----- Original Message ----- From: <ryan.gaffuri@xxxxxxx> To: <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, February 13, 2004 1:57 PM Subject: Re: Re: how does oracle manage hash maps? I know how the LRU works with linked lists. I've written linked list code before. From your diagram I take it that, oracle builds the hash map in the pga. The number of buckets is a prime number. Its hard to read your diagram. I'm not quite sure how the hash map links to the buffer chain. In basic hashing methodology each hash bucket points to a specific value. Jonathan lewis stated that in making the hash map oracle grabs the actually values you want to return. However, those values don't go into the PGA with the hash map do they? I thought all data elements went into the buffer cache? ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html -----------------------------------------------------------------