Tom: I am just giving an option NOT that I recommend everyone to use that.
Then coming to your question: > This is bad advice. What happens after some records are deleted and new > ones inserted. The new records will be placed within the spaces made empty > by the deleted records. Set the PCTUSED to absolutely low value so that the used blocks never linked to freelist chain. So everytime you look for a space you go for a virgin block. THe space reclaimed by any DELETEs never returns to freelists . Best Regards, K Gopalakrishnan Bangalore, INDIA ----- Original Message ----- To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 8:58 PM > K Gopalakrishnan, > > This is bad advice. What happens after some records are deleted and new > ones inserted. The new records will be placed within the spaces made empty > by the deleted records. > > I would never guarantee retrieving data in the order it was inserted unless > the table contained a sequence number. There is no other way to guarantee > this. > > Tom Mercadante > Oracle Certified Professional > > > -----Original Message----- > Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 10:28 AM > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > > > Rachel: > > > If you want to FORCE the order you can do couple of things like having a big > PCTFREE (to make sure that no rows are migrated because of the updates) and > small PCTUSED so that the blocks are never reused. In this case you will get > the > rows in the inserted order. > > ANother alternative is your method (additional column SYSDATE) > > Best Regards, > K Gopalakrishnan > Bangalore, INDIA > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 7:33 PM > > > > > > > > Do you want to physically order them or do you just want to know by time > the > > order in which they were entered. > > > > if the first, no, not that I know of. If the later, yes, add another > column > > (ins_date date) and a trigger to populate that column with sysdate when > you > > insert a row. You can then order by ins_date > > > > > -- > Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com > -- > Author: K Gopalakrishnan > INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Fat City Network Services -- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 > San Diego, California -- Public Internet access / Mailing Lists > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message > to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in > the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L > (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may > also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing). > -- > Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com > -- > Author: Mercadante, Thomas F > INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Fat City Network Services -- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 > San Diego, California -- Public Internet access / Mailing Lists > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message > to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in > the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L > (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may > also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing). -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: K Gopalakrishnan INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 San Diego, California -- Public Internet access / Mailing Lists -------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).
