![[assets/ex_seqscan.png|256]]
- **Description**: Performs a sequential scan of a table.
- **Performance**: Scans the entire table, can be slow.
- **Factors**: Table size, disk access speed.
- **Cost**: `disk I/O cost * table size`
- ![[assets/ex_scan.svg|200x200]]
- **Operates on**: [[Structures/Table]]
- **Workloads**:
- [[Workloads/IO]]
- [[Workloads/Sub/DataFileRead]]
- [[Workloads/Sub/DataFilePrefetch]]
- [[Workloads/LWLock]]
- [[Workloads/Sub/BufferContent]]
- [[Workloads/Sub/BufferMapping]]
- [[Workloads/Sub/SyncScan]]