Hi All Is there any method in Oracle to capture or order the rows in a table in the order they were entered. I tried it with rowid but when a row is deleted, the rowid corresponding to this row is reassigned for a new row which is inserted into the table at a later stage.
Eg. SQL> select rowid,abc.* from abc order by rowid; ROWID A ------------------ ---------- AAAFmYAASAAAYsqAAA 100 AAAFmYAASAAAYsqAAB 200 AAAFmYAASAAAYsqAAC 300 I deleted one transaction. delete from abc where a=200; commit; Then I inserted two rows. insert into abc values(500); insert into abc values(600); commit; Now when I order by rowid SQL> select rowid,abc.* from abc order by rowid; ROWID A ------------------ ---------- AAAFmYAASAAAYsqAAA 100 AAAFmYAASAAAYsqAAB 600 AAAFmYAASAAAYsqAAC 300 AAAFmYAASAAAYsqAAD 500 I.e The values I entered last appeared second.The rowid (AAAFmYAASAAAYsqAAB ) corresponding to the row I deleted was reassigned for the last entered row (a=600). What I want is that this must be sorted in the order of its entry. Can anyone help me out. Thanks in advance Systems. -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 San Diego, California -- Public Internet access / Mailing Lists -------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).
