At 08:41 22/3/01 -0500, Glenn McAllister wrote: >Then what does the ORDER BY clause do for you? Its standard SQL (or if not, >I've never come across a vender that didn't implement it) for providing >ordering semantics to a query.
which is exactly the point. You need to add modifiers to select (or else know underlying implementation like selecting on primary key in a non-parralel DB) for it to have ordering semantics. Cheers, Pete *-----------------------------------------------------* | "Faced with the choice between changing one's mind, | | and proving that there is no need to do so - almost | | everyone gets busy on the proof." | | - John Kenneth Galbraith | *-----------------------------------------------------*
