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Tangent to this discussion but something SQL users sometimes forget: if you
want the result set sorted, you must provide an ORDER BY. Similar to how you
mentioned a file may seem to always be displayed in the same order, it is
not guaranteed.

On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 11:19 AM, CRPence <CRPbottle@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

So while a default
query may seem to /always/ return data in arrival order, that effect can
not legitimately be expected\assumed; the only valid assumption is that
the correct set of rows are returned, irrespective of any order.

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