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How about in the order in which they were originally inserted? Granted that there were only inserts into the table.
Sergey
In article <3952223f.9830485_at_super.news-ituk.to>,
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>
> The 'physical order' ( if by that you mean the actual location of each
record
> on the storage device) of data in an Oracle database is
undeterminable....
>
> Rownum is a counter that limits the # of rows returned...
>
> sergey_s_at_my-deja.com wrote:
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> >Does ROWNUM guarantee physical order of the rows in a table?
> >If not, how can I get rows out in their physical order?
> >
> >Thanks!
> >
> >Sergey
> >
> >
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