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external sort

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external sort

A sort program that uses the hard disk as a temporary workspace. In the early days of computing, tape drives were used as work drives. Contrast with internal sort.



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In addition to drop-in sort replacements for the SAS System, Ascential's DataStage and SyncSort UNIX, CoSORT 8 will have an "advanced external sort procedure" for Informatica's PowerCenter, hooks to other ETL tools, and a drop-in replacement for MVS sorts via data-sharing software.
 
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