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Select/sort rows from a table in "insertion" order. [message #225729]

Wed, 21 March 2007 02:47

creativerashid
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Registered: March 2007
Location: Faisalabad

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Hello,

How i can select/sort rows from an existing table (more than a million rows) in natural order. (The exact order in which rows are inserted)
waiting for an immediate response.

Thank you.

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Re: Select/sort rows from a table in "insertion" order. [message #225759 is a reply to message #225729]

Wed, 21 March 2007 05:27

Littlefoot
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Location: Croatia, Europe

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If this table doesn't contain a column which holds information about insertion order (for example, a sequence-populated column or a DATE (including time portion) column), as far as I can tell - no, you can not know in which order records have been inserted into a table.

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Re: Select/sort rows from a table in "insertion" order. [message #225965 is a reply to message #225759]

Thu, 22 March 2007 02:08

ab_trivedi
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Registered: August 2006
Location: Pune, India

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@LF this is a general problem I think Oracle should make a compulsory field with every row. Then this problem will be solved.
Ashu

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Re: Select/sort rows from a table in "insertion" order. [message #226963 is a reply to message #225965]

Tue, 27 March 2007 00:34

skooman
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Registered: March 2005
Location: Netherlands

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Did you raise an enhancement request on Metalink for this?
(posting suggestions on a forum is usually not the fastest way to get functionality added... Wink

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