I have a table like so : CREATE TABLE album_rank( album_id INT NOT NULL, rank INT NOT NULL, KEY(album_id) )
I want to query on the album_id & get the results ordered by rank but I want to avoid doing an ORDER BY in the query because of the filesort that it usually triggers so I pre-ordered the rows in my table by inserting them in the order I wanted with a CREATE TABLE ordered SELECT * FROM unordered ORDER BY album_id, rank ASC. For some reason I get the data back in a different order. I've tried ORDER BY album_id,rank ASC & DESC in case it's a FILO or FIFO. Is there some way that I can avoid doing an ORDER BY and get my rows back ordered by album_id, rank they way I inserted them ?