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eprabinkumar02

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PostPosted: Thu Jun 07, 2007 11:27 pm
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Hi All,

Can anyone tell me the answere of below question.

What is the unique functionality that a GU call can do which GN call can't?

Please reply me asap.

Thanks in advance
Prabin
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Devzee

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PostPosted: Fri Jun 08, 2007 1:46 am
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GU - Random Read

GN - Sequential read
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prasadvrk

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PostPosted: Fri Jun 08, 2007 11:22 am
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As pointed by Devzee GU can directly fetch the desired record while GN has to process sequentially to fetch the same record
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 11, 2007 3:04 pm
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Most of the time GU (Get unique )calls are used for getting single segment from the screen subsequent segements are received by GN (Get next) call,Kindly correct me if i am wrong
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