On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 8:37 AM, Brad Stiles <bradley.sti...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> For my own edification, why the "order by 1" clause?
from the docs... http://www.sqlite.org/lang_select.html Each term of an ORDER BY expression is processed as follows: If the ORDER BY expression is a constant integer K then the output is ordered by the K-th column of the result set. If the ORDER BY expression is an identifier and one of the output columns has an alias by the same name, then the output is ordered by the identified column. Otherwise, the ORDER BY expression is evaluated and the output is ordered by the value of that expression. >> >> To sort them in ascending order of table name, which might make >> old-fashioned capers like visual scrutiny a little easier. > > OK then, why would one not use the column name? > > /bs > _______________________________________________ > sqlite-users mailing list > sqlite-users@sqlite.org > http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users > -- Puneet Kishor http://www.punkish.org/ Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies http://www.nelson.wisc.edu/ Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) http://www.osgeo.org/ _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
