What Rick said is absolutely correct and you probably are obsessing about something that doesn't matter. But I would venture you are using an auto-number field as the primary key when you could easily change it to a function something similar to: set ID = MAX(ID) + 1.
-----Original Message----- From: Bryan McCloskey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2002 4:03 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: re-ordering rows You're right, it's not important how the data is stored inside the database. I was just hoping that there would be a way to set a default order so that I wouldn't have to write a cumbersome ORDER BY phrase every time I wanted to see the data. I thought that perhaps indexes could accomplish this, somehow by telling them to re-index the column, but perhaps not. -b --- Rick Emery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Why is the internal order important? When > SELECTing, the internal order is > of no importance to MYSQL. It does not speed-up the > query or access. When > discussing relational database systems, all that > matters is the order of > output. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send FREE Valentine eCards with Yahoo! Greetings! http://greetings.yahoo.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php
