Probably what you mean is that you want the order in which the records were originally inserted into the database. In that case add a serial to your table and fetch the records like SELECT * FROM tbl WHERE 1=1 ORDER BY [myserialfield] It's not foolproof but will in many cases come close to what you seem to be trying to achieve by not using 'order by'.
Nacef LABIDI wrote: > Yes I don't issue any sort statement, and I indeed want the data to be show > as it is stored in the database.