RE: sort order on VIEWs ?
Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2011 14:26:36 -0700
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Separate data from presentation.
Why would you type the same SQL a dozen time a day?
IF you execute that SQL that much, then wouldn't it make sense to save it to a SQL script?
You still have to type - Select * from my_view
And are you happy doing that 12x a day?
Michael Dinh
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From: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org [mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of Michael Moore
Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2011 11:45 AM
To: Lange, Kevin G
Cc: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
Subject: Re: sort order on VIEWs ?
I am really trying to make a case to somebody else that he should not do it. However, there is the matter of convenience.
Select * from my_view order by cust_num,billing_cycle_period,invoice_id,line_id,unit_price;
Now if I have to type that out a dozen times a day, and that is always the sort order (i.e. nothing else really makes any sense) then it might be convenient to have the sort order on the view.
That's the only counter argument I could come up with.
Regards,
Mike
On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 11:39 AM, Lange, Kevin G <kevin.lange_at_ppoone.com<mailto:kevin.lange_at_ppoone.com>> wrote: Yea, I was gonna ask you the question ........ why would you include an order by in a view ?
From: Michael Moore [mailto:michaeljmoore_at_gmail.com<mailto:michaeljmoore_at_gmail.com>] Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2011 1:38 PM
To: Lange, Kevin G
Cc: oracle-l_at_freelists.org<mailto:oracle-l_at_freelists.org> Subject: Re: sort order on VIEWs ?
Thanks kevin.
Since asking the question I did some digging.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/View_(database) 4th paragraph
The take-away is that you can do it in Oracle, but it's not standard and probably not a good idea.
Regards,
Mike
On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 11:34 AM, Lange, Kevin G <kevin.lange_at_ppoone.com<mailto:kevin.lange_at_ppoone.com>> wrote: Not sure about a Guarantee, but, in my tests, as long as I did not include an order by on the query contrary to the order by on the view, I got my data in the order of the views order by.
Of course, it was a small sampling of data.
From: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org<mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org> [mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org<mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org>] On Behalf Of Michael Moore Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2011 1:20 PM
To: oracle-l_at_freelists.org<mailto:oracle-l_at_freelists.org> Subject: sort order on VIEWs ?
If a VIEW has an ORDER BY clause, am I guaranteed to get that sort order when I use the VIEW (provided of course that I don't specify a different sort order)?
Regards,
Mike
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