Simple doubt about ORDER BY

Stan Busk maxprog at mac.com
Thu Jan 12 21:20:31 CST 2006


Really cool! I think it is far the best behavior.

~/Stan

> On 1/12/06 8:13 PM, "Ruslan Zasukhin" <sunshine at public.kherson.ua>  
> wrote:
>
>> On 1/12/06 8:10 PM, "Stan Busk" <maxprog at mac.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Stan,
>>
>>> Am I right to think Valentina returns entries sorted by RecID when
>>> the sorted column values are identical? It looks like it behave that
>>> way. Just to make sure.
>>
>> Probably, although this is NOT a target.
>> So do not depend on this.
>
> Stan, I am wrong.
>
> Valentina really do all its best to get records sorted by RecID.
> Actually this is natural order for many algorithms, so no additional
> overhead.
>
> The same is true for joins.
>
> This is because always it is better iterate forward then backward.
>
> -- 
> Best regards,
>
> Ruslan Zasukhin
> VP Engineering and New Technology
> Paradigma Software, Inc
>
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>
> [I feel the need: the need for speed]
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