RE: Will series of limited selects return entire table?

2004-10-12 Thread Jon Frisby
If you include an ORDER BY clause, and the contents of the table are not modified, then yes. Unexpected insertion of a row in the "middle" of the table (as ordered by your ORDER BY clause) may cause a row to be seen twice (if it happens at an index below the point your queries have reached) as it

Re: Will series of limited selects return entire table?

2004-10-10 Thread Jim Kraai
Jeff, Yes, unless the contents of the table have changed during the 'paging' sequence. 1. The SQL language specification explicitly doesn't guarantee a particular or reproducible order on rows returned for a select unless an ORDER BY clause is specified. How/whether order remains the same depend