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Hashing is the most common form of purely random access to a file or database. It is

also used to access columns that do not have an index as an optimisation technique.

Hash functions calculate the address of the page in which the record is to be stored

based on one or more fields in the record. The records in a hash file appear randomly

distributed across the available space. It requires some hashing algorithm and the

technique. Hashing Algorithm converts a primary key value into a record address. The

most popular form of hashing is division hashing with chained overflow.

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