Hi Darren,
If that works, then try using a subquery in the view definition
instead.
create view Enumerated
as
select rowid as Sequence, Name from (
select Name from Planets order by Name
)
Sort of like that.
Thanks for the suggestion, but, unless I'm missing something, it
doesn't work. Since rowid doesn't exist in the inner query, the outer
query assigns Sequence with a null value, so the whole result is:
Sequence Name
---------- ----------
. Earth
. Jupiter
. Mars
. Mercury
. Venus
(. = null)
If we instead change it to include rowid in the subquery:
create view Enumerated
as
select rowid as Sequence, Name from (
select rowid, Name from Planets order by Name
)
;
we get the original rowids (but we instead want a numerical sequence
1, 2, 3, 4, 5):
Sequence Name
---------- ----------
3 Earth
5 Jupiter
4 Mars
1 Mercury
2 Venus
Thanks,
Tom
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