Peter Donald wrote: > > Well where foreach has been implemented it often does have ordering > semantics (as a matter of fact I can't think of a implementation that does > not have ordering semantics - can you?). However very few decent (I can't > think of any) implementations of SQL have ordering semantics at that level > (people who know the underlying strategy/structures/db can force a > particular ordering but that was no inherent in SQL last time I read about > it). >
Then what does the ORDER BY clause do for you? Its standard SQL (or if not, I've never come across a vender that didn't implement it) for providing ordering semantics to a query. Glenn
