Re: PL/SQL Ordered Insert

I might be wrong, but you can't have an order by in an "insert into select ..from" statement
although you can do it using an ordered cursor and single row inserts.

But having done all that the table would not be ordered as there is no guarantee of data retrieval without an order by or a group by.

The exception to this is an index_organised table but be aware of limitations in using this table, in that additional indexes may not be created. [I think that is still the case in 8.1.6 but haven't checked]

I am more interested in why the table needs to be ordered in the first place.

Surely if the indexation is fit-for-purpose then the notional ordering of the rows is still impacted by the physical distribution of the data.

Like Stephen, I may be missing something.

cheers

Rod

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"Manning, Stephen (calanais)" wrote:


> 

> 

> Wouldn't he just need to ORDER BY the source data?  Or am I missing

> something.

> 

> Stephen

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> A fellow DBA has a need to insert records into

> a temp table (in order) via a stored proc.  Does

> anyone know a way to accomplish this?

> 

> Apparently, SQL-Server has this ability and they're

> in the process of converting from SQL-Server to Oracle.

> 

> TIA

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