On Mon, 03 May 2004 13:21:56 -0500 Bob Ramsey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ah, but the ordering is not random. As your example has it, the > results are in the order that the entries were inserted into the > table. There is an explanation for the order of the returned data. Conceptually, row order truely is random and meaningless in an RDBMS. In a multi-user system who cares who originally inserted the data and in what order? Just because it behaves that way now, in future versions of MySQL the developers may decide to do something completely different and change the default way rows are pulled without an ORDER BY and they certainly have that right. Josh -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
