There is a very good reason for having data
"approximately" in physical order - it can
dramatically improve your buffer hit rates.
IOT's are great for this, but if you're on an earlier
version then the occasional job to "pseudo-cluster"
the data can be a very good thing...
Cheers
Connor
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> Whyever would you want data inserted in order?
> There is no guarantee that
> Oracle will actually store the records "in order",
> there is no performance
> gain, and you can always retrieve the records in
> order by using an order by
> statement -- if you really need ordered data, you
> could use a
> index-organized table with all of your columns, with
> the date as the first
> column. But methinks this would be dangerous for a
> heavy transaction
> table. (Gurus, please correct me if I'm wrong here)
>
> However, if you are still keen, you could do this
> through a PL/SQL block,
> something like the following:
>
> declare
> cursor get_data is
> select col1, col2, col3, ...
> from unordered_table
> order by whatever;
> begin
> for dataRec in get_data loop
> insert into ordered_table (col1, col2,
> col3, ...)
> values (dataRec.col1, dataRec.col2,
> dataRec.col3, ...)
> end loop;
> end;
> /
>
> Cheers!
>
> Diana
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> "Browett, Darren"
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