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The old rule: If you need the records in a specific sequence, you have to add an ORDER BY.
It is the Query Optimizer if and which access path is used, and the decision depends on among others on the data composition.

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From: MIDRANGE-L <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Dave
Sent: Friday, 6 October 2023 10:11
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Fwd: SQL results different after upgrading IBM i

Hello all,



Since changing the i and upgrading from V7.1 to V7.3, it has been discovered that at at least 2 SQL statements are no longer working in the same way.

Could it be that there was some kind of system parameter concerning the usage of SQL that was missed ?



In the example below, no order by clause was added as it was assumed that the lines resulting from the part of the statement preceding « UNION » would appear in the final table before those in the latter part of the statement.

Ie, line B followed by line L.

If the statement is issued in an interactive sql session then this is the case. However, the statement is being used in a cursor in a sqlrpgle program, and since changing the i, the result is line L followed by line B.



Thanks in advance for any input.



Data in physical file

Type Code

B ****

L ****





SELECT distinct type, Code FROM MyTable

WHERE 1=1

AND type = 'B'

UNION

SELECT distinct type, Code FROM MyTable

WHERE 1=1

AND type IN ( 'L', 'M')
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