Re: Creating a sorted table

Well, it won't work in all cases, but I have on occasion used as a shortcut:

INSERT INTO ... SELECT DISTINCT transaction_date, ...

since the distinct will order it for you, beginning with the first item in the select.
A more reliable way would be to use pl/sql, select the ordered data into a cursor, then insert one by one.

At 02:45 PM 5/25/01 -0800, you wrote:
>We have un-ordered data in a table that needs to be inserted into a
>transaction table in
>order of the date that the transaction took place.
>
>Oracle does not allow "INSERT ..... AS SELECT ..... ORDER BY....."
>or "CREATE TMP_TABLE ..... AS SELECT ..... ORDER BY......"
>
>Is there a method by which I can accomplish this.
>
>Thank you in advance
>
>Darren Browett
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