Re: sql - create view and order by

Rick,

If I try
create index osp_a on mikee/osp (oheda8)

I get
OSP in MIKEE not a table.

I'm doing this because one of our RPG programmers wants to join two files
(header and detail) and do the primary sort on a field in the detail file
and the secondary sort on a field in the header file.  She says she can't
do this in DDS.

I thought I could possibly create such a logical with SQL, so she could use
RLA against it in her RPG program.  She's not against using embedded SQL in
her program, but she doesn't know how and I thought this might be easier.

Thanks,
Mike E.




                                                                                
                                      
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Mike,

I believe you are correct. views don't allow the order by clause.

Can you create an index over the view?  are you going to use this
view/index exclusively with sql?

if so, you can do your 'order by's when you use the view.  if not, why not
just create a joined logical? (two birds, one stone)

Rick

----original message------
<snip>
It looks like there's no way to put an ORDER BY clause in a CREATE VIEW
statement.  I'm trying
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