Bryan,
I apologise, did I mistakenly call you Brent earlier!?
> Indeed. I have a relatively large (few dozen) number
> of tables that are accessed via PHP and a web
> interface. The script pulls information from these
> tables to generate pull-down menus. It would be nice
> if these pull-down men
Brent,
> >What Rick said is absolutely correct and you probably are obsessing about
> >something that doesn't matter. But I would venture you are using an
> >auto-number field as the primary key when you could easily change it to a
> >function something similar to: set ID = MAX(ID) + 1.
>
> Kei
ndy for display purposes.
Brent
>-Original Message-
>From: Bryan McCloskey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2002 4:03 PM
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: RE: re-ordering rows
>
>
>You're right, it's not important how the data is
>
ssage-
From: Bryan McCloskey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2002 4:03 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: re-ordering rows
You're right, it's not important how the data is
stored inside the database. I was just hoping that
there would be a way to set a default
You're right, it's not important how the data is
stored inside the database. I was just hoping that
there would be a way to set a default order so that I
wouldn't have to write a cumbersome ORDER BY phrase
every time I wanted to see the data. I thought that
perhaps indexes could accomplish this, s
Why is the internal order important? When SELECTing, the internal order is
of no importance to MYSQL. It does not speed-up the query or access. When
discussing relational database systems, all that matters is the order of
output.
-Original Message-
From: Victoria Reznichenko [mailto:[E
On Thursday 14 February 2002 09:54, Bryan McCloskey wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> How do I get the rows in a table to be in a different
> order? I know I can sort a SELECT statement with an
> ORDER BY clause, but how do I make this a permanent
> adjustment to the table, so that all future SELECTs
> will
