Rachel:
If you want to FORCE the order you can do couple of things like having a big PCTFREE (to make sure that no rows are migrated because of the updates) and small PCTUSED so that the blocks are never reused. In this case you will get the rows in the inserted order. ANother alternative is your method (additional column SYSDATE) Best Regards, K Gopalakrishnan Bangalore, INDIA ----- Original Message ----- To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 7:33 PM > > > Do you want to physically order them or do you just want to know by time the > order in which they were entered. > > if the first, no, not that I know of. If the later, yes, add another column > (ins_date date) and a trigger to populate that column with sysdate when you > insert a row. You can then order by ins_date > -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: K Gopalakrishnan 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).