Re: Compound Primary Key - order not as expected
- From: "David Portas" <REMOVE_BEFORE_REPLYING_dportas@xxxxxxx>
- Date: 28 Apr 2006 06:20:48 -0700
John Rivers wrote:
and by default a select statement with no ORDER BY will always return
data in the order of the clustered index (when present)
Not true at all. As Joe says, tables are not logically ordered. There
is no guarantee that any queries will match the physical order on disk
or in a clustered index.
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Whenever possible please post enough code to reproduce your problem.
Including CREATE TABLE and INSERT statements usually helps.
State what version of SQL Server you are using and specify the content
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SQL Server Books Online:
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/library/ms130214(en-US,SQL.90).aspx
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