I've looked at the wikipedia article on Hash tables but it doesn't seem to say anything about how to implement a hash table that can distribute entries of arbitrary SQL datatype evenly into n bucke...

I would like to use ORA_HASH on xmltype datatype, and workarounds are straight forward solutions ? I am using oracle 11g r2 and binary xml as storage option for xmltype column Query which I used ...

Ora_hash is deterministic in that the keeping the input and seed constant will produce a definite output. But, for any seed (including the default), will the output of an ora_hash necessarily have...

I am working with an Oracle database and I need to be able to partition the data in a table. I understand that Rracle has an ora_hash function that can partition the data into buckets. Is the ora_h...

Which form of hashing would return the fastest results (and least chance of 2 results returning the same hash) when summing up the hash of all rows (10 million) for one column(could be NUMBER, VARC...