Re: order by rrn, or lifo? -- MIDRANGE-L

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Subject: Re: order by rrn, or lifo?
From: "Steve Landess" <steve_landess@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2003 15:09:24 -0500
Cc: "Hatzenbeler, Tim" <thatzenbeler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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>Tim wrote:
> Is it possible on a sql select statement, to order my results by the
latest
> record in the file to the oldest?  without using a date field?  I would
like
> to order by the rrn, highest to lowest...

Try something like this:

  select rrn(filename),filename.*
  from filename
  order by 1 desc

Steve Landess
Austin, Texas
(512) 423-0935

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