The physical location of a record is determined by a mathematical formula, which transforms a file key into a record location in ____________.
The physical location of a record is determined by a mathematical formula, which transforms a file key into a record location in hashed file.
Hashing is the transformation of a string of characters into a usually shorter fixed-length value or key that represents the original string. Hashing is used to index and retrieve items in a database because it is faster to find the item using the shorter hashed key than to find it using the original value.
Hashing technique comes into picture. Hashing is an efficient technique to directly search the location of desired data on the disk without using index structure. Data is stored at the data blocks whose address is generated by using hash function.