On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 10:36 AM, Brad Stiles <bradley.sti...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >> For my own edification, why the "order by 1" clause? >>> > >>> > 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? >> >> It does. > > No, I meant why not use the column name, instead of the number? > > Why use "order by 1" instead of "order by name"? > > I understand that "1" refers to the "'drop table ' || name || ';'" > result column, but why bother? It seems simpler to me to use the > actual column name. Is there a performance thing involved here, or > simply a preference?
because the way the query was written, there was no alias provided to the selected column, so just giving the column number worked. Is there a performance difference? I don't know... just another way of doing things perhaps. > > /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
