question about ordering in a table

From: Ryan <rgaffuri_at_cox.net>
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 19:09:24 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.005D316B.20031014190924@fatcity.com>

If I have a table that does not have any indexes or keys. If I insert 10 records. Will there ever be a case that when I do a select on that table without an 'order by' clause that the result set will return in a different order? Assume the table is read only. No DML is performed on it.

So I insert
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10

I do select * from table; Will the data always be returned in that order?

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