RE: order by clause in a view

Why not:  

select * from view
order by col;  

Instead of putting the order by in the view definition?  

And, don't you have to alias the count(cust_no) expression?  

Ron Reidy
Lead DBA  

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[mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of Lyall Barbour Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2007 3:18 PM
To: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
Subject: order by clause in a view

Hi,
  Simple question. I've got a solution. Hoping you peeps could come up with a better one.  

select cust_no, count(cust_no)
from table
where <blah>
group by cust_no
order by count(cust_no)  

works great.  

create or replace view <table_v> as
select cust_no, count(cust_no)
from table
where <blah>
group by cust_no
order by count(cust_no)  

some ora error  

We are running 8.0.5 and that's why. 8i it's fixed. I'm prepared to create a temp table and truncate it after my report goes. But was hoping you guys might have another way to do this....  

Thanks,
Lyall Barbour

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