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Oracle® OLAP DML Reference
11g Release 2 (11.2)

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ORA_HASH

The ORA_HASH function computes a hash value for a given expression. This function is useful for operations such as analyzing a subset of data and generating a random sample.

Return Value

NUMBER

Syntax

ORA_HASH (expr [, max_bucket [, seed_value ] ])

Parameters

expr

The data for which you want the function to compute a hash value. There are no restrictions on the type or length of data represented by expr.

max_bucket

The maximum bucket value returned by the function. You can specify any value between 0 and 4294967295. The default is 4294967295.

seed_value

A value between 0 and 4294967295. The default is 0. When you want to produce different has values for the same set of data, specify a value for this argument.