Sam, Tuesday, March 05, 2002, 6:16:17 PM, you wrote: SL> I have a table like so :
SL> CREATE TABLE album_rank( SL> album_id INT NOT NULL, SL> rank INT NOT NULL, SL> KEY(album_id) SL> ) SL> I want to query on the album_id & get the results ordered by rank but I SL> want to avoid doing an ORDER BY in the query because of the filesort SL> that it usually triggers so I pre-ordered the rows in my table by SL> inserting them in the order I wanted with a CREATE TABLE ordered SL> SELECT * FROM unordered ORDER BY album_id, rank ASC. SL> For some reason I get the data back in a different order. I've tried SL> ORDER BY album_id,rank ASC & DESC in case it's a FILO or FIFO. SL> Is there some way that I can avoid doing an ORDER BY and get my SL> rows back ordered by album_id, rank they way I inserted them ? Regularly no. The order of entries in tables changes during the work. -- For technical support contracts, goto https://order.mysql.com/ This email is sponsored by Ensita.net http://www.ensita.net/ __ ___ ___ ____ __ / |/ /_ __/ __/ __ \/ / Victoria Reznichenko / /|_/ / // /\ \/ /_/ / /__ [EMAIL PROTECTED] /_/ /_/\_, /___/\___\_\___/ MySQL AB / Ensita.net <___/ www.mysql.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
