Re: insert statement using order by

From: <rtproffitt_at_my-deja.com>
Date: 1999/10/11
Message-ID: <7ttjgk$fin$1_at_nnrp1.deja.com>#1/1


In relational theory, you never know nor can depend on what order your data is stored in, so inserting into a table with an order by clause doesn't make sense...

You would use Order by in your views or
select statements to guarantee the order of your data...

In fact, I have seen Oracle insert my
individual insert statements into a
different order than I had inserted them, so one cannot trust the physical storage
to order the data.....

Robert Proffitt
Beckman Coulter

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