Hi Jan
It is my understanding that a select query without "order by" has an
undefined order.
Though I'm sure you understand the dangers of using something which is
undefined, I'm going reiterate them here:
In general you should never rely on something which is undefined.
Attempting to investigate
In article ,
Ty Busby writes:
> I have a table that stores a very large starting number called
> epc_start_numeric and a quantity. I've apparently built the most
> inefficient query possible for doing the job I need: find out if any
> records overlap. Imagine the epc_start_numeric + quantity
>