RE: Order rows

K Gopalakrishnan,

This is bad advice. What happens after some records are deleted and new ones inserted. The new records will be placed within the spaces made empty by the deleted records.

I would never guarantee retrieving data in the order it was inserted unless the table contained a sequence number. There is no other way to guarantee this.

Tom Mercadante
Oracle Certified Professional

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Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 10:28 AM
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Rachel:

If you want to FORCE the order you can do couple of things like having a big PCTFREE (to make sure that no rows are migrated because of the updates) and small PCTUSED so that the blocks are never reused. In this case you will get the
rows in the inserted order.

ANother alternative is your method (additional column SYSDATE)

Best Regards,
K Gopalakrishnan
Bangalore, INDIA

• Original Message ----- To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com> Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 7:33 PM

>
>
> Do you want to physically order them or do you just want to know by time
the
> order in which they were entered.
>
> if the first, no, not that I know of. If the later, yes, add another
column
> (ins_date date) and a trigger to populate that column with sysdate when
you
> insert a row. You can then order by ins_date
>

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