Re: Sorting alphanumeric column

From: Paul <paulsnewsgroups_at_hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2005 20:57:54 +0100
Message-ID: <11pu911mvh5efn8jvtmunkk72eb28rbvmt@4ax.com>

tammy_gutter_at_yahoo.com wrote:

> Sorry, I am not sure
>what "top post" means. I will not do in the future if you explain what
>it means.

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Because it messes up the flow of reading. I prefer to bottom-post.
> How come?
> What do you do instead?
> > No.
> > > Do you like top-posting?

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Get the idea? Most of the serious contributors here (who spend time and effort trying to solve the problems of others) get exasperated at having to scroll up and down a topposted post, rather than answering inline.

>I am new to Oracle (prev Sybase/SQL Server) and don't quite know all of
>its capabilities. Thanks for all your time and suggestions!!!

This is an inline response to your query.

Paul...

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plinehan __at__ yahoo __dot__ __com__

XP Pro, SP 2, 

Oracle, 9.2.0.1.0 (Enterprise Ed.)
Interbase 6.0.2.0;

When asking database related questions, please give other posters 
some clues, like operating system, version of db being used and DDL.
The exact text and/or number of error messages is useful (!= "it didn't work!").
Thanks.
 
Furthermore, As a courtesy to those who spend 
time analysing and attempting to help, please 
do not top post.

Received on Thu Jun 02 2005 - 14:57:54 CDT