whats the disadvantage of search all over search?

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whats the disadvantage of search all over search?..

Answer / sharath

1)Search all is applied only for single dimensional array.
However Search can be applied against single or
multidimensional arrays.
2)Only one WHEN condition is coded in Search all.

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whats the disadvantage of search all over search?..

Answer / snehatechm

computation speed is fast in search all.
disadvange is file should be in sorted order to be searched.

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whats the disadvantage of search all over search?..

Answer / animesh

In search all,
in when condition we can give only = condition
but in search we can give any conditional operator.

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whats the disadvantage of search all over search?..

Answer / venkat

search is a normal search so it takes a less time to search
the related information but search all first,it will divide
the table and then it will search depends on the
imp.statements like bottom up or up down statments so,for
that one search all will take sme time to search the
contents. for a large no records also search is
sufficient..
correct me ...if wrong..venkat

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