Temporary buffer icon

Temporary Buffer

The Temporary Buffer icon indicates that a temporary buffer was created to store the intermediate rows of an operation. The temporary buffer is generally considered at a serialization point within a query to help facilitate operations such as parallelism. The buffer is an unsorted data structure but it differs from other temporary data structures in that the buffer does not have to be fully populated in order allow its results to be processed.

Note: A temporary buffer is an internal data structure and can only be created by the system.