"Chris \( Val \)" <chrisval_at_bigpond.com.au> wrote in message news:<2l1n0nF7m4jiU1_at_uni-berlin.de>...
> "Tony" <andrewst_at_onetel.net.uk> wrote in message
> news:c0e3f26e.0407060409.75c16a93_at_posting.google.com...
> | (I took the liberty of adding a useful ORDER BY clause to the query).
>
> I must admit that I didn't even think about it, presumably
> because I thought that the lines would be ordered by default
> anyway.
>
> Is this not the case ?
Not in general no. Quite likely you will find that it works without
the ORDER BY, since it tends to "come out as it went in". But this is
NOT guaranteed and you should never rely on it in a real program.
Received on Wed Jul 07 2004 - 11:02:24 CDT
