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| From: | Leonardo Francalanci | Date: | June 21 2004 5:10pm |
| Subject: | R: why CPU is high while disks are idle in a table scan??? | ||
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> Hard to say, but in a table scan the CPU does have a lot of work to > do. It needs to do about 16,000,000 comparisons (based on your info). Why comparison? It's a sum... And the table is not small: 272,000,000 bytes! And disk is very low (almost 0%)
