Re: SQL: Inconsistent "order by"

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Rob,
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After many discussions with development, I think we have a solution to
the problem you were seeing.  According to development and what is
documented in the SQL Reference, the order by clause will accept a
a column name, an integer or a sort-key expression.  I've confirmed with
development that the integer must be in the form of a number and cannot
be a host variable.  When the term integer-expression is used,
then a number or a host variable or another numeric expression(X +Y)
can be used as a parameter.
The net is what you are seeing returned by your program is
working as designed.
.
There is another way to specify the SQL statement string so that
you can obtain the results that you are expecting.
If the Sqlstmt in your program is built dynamically using
Parm1, then prepared, you can still order the results by the
parameter passed in.
.
 Sqlstmt ='select ccust, cnme, cad1, cad2, cste, czip  ' +
         'From rcm '  +
     'where cmid=' + apos + 'CM' + apos + ' ' +
      'Order by ' +  %edict(Parm1:'Z')  + ' ' ;
.
The %edict function is used to convert the value in Parm1
to a character that is concatenated to the select
statement. Using this statement in your program gave me
the expected results.
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Regards,
(name removed), Rochester Support Center, Database Team
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Additional Information:
So what you are saying is that
Order by :myvar
is not an error.  It will not create a invalid sql state SQLSTT, nor an
invalid SQL code SQLCOD.  However it is just ignored and any old sort
order is used?

How can this be 'working as designed'?  Who designed it so that an order
 by clause is ignored?

I consider the suggestion to use concantenation a work around until this
 is resolved.



Rob Berendt
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