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Re: order of rows when selecting from table of

From: <Jared.Still_at_radisys.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 09:52:46 -0700
Message-ID: <OF444581DD.E8351085-ON88256E78.005CA289-88256E78.005CB935@radisys.com>


True, but this is not a physical table.
The same rules *may* not apply.

Jared

david wendelken <davewendelken_at_earthlink.net> Sent by: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org
 04/16/2004 05:44 AM
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Subject: Re: order of rows when selecting from table of

>Oracle being a wonderful and concerned corporation will only guarantee
>that you will get the data out of the table when the select and other
>clauses are correct.

When I took my first Oracle SQL class back in the 80's, Oracle guaranteed that the order of the returned data (without an order by clause) was "indeterminate", meaning that they guaranteed that you could not count on any order from query to query.

So, use the order by clause if you want a specific order!



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