On May 5, 2009, at 2:06 PM, Matt Jarvis wrote:
> When a query is run against a table, are the records, by default,
> returned in natural order?
There is no concept of "natural order" in relational databases,
either in rows or columns. A particular implementation might rely on a
particular ordering by default, but you should never program with that
assumption.
If you want results ordered by PK, then add that order by expression.
-- Ed Leafe
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