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Re: instability when inserting data
Posted by: Felix Geerinckx
Date: June 27, 2005 01:35AM

thierry delahaut wrote:

> I have observed several times some instability when inserting new data in a table, meaning the
> new data are placed at the beginning of the table, not the end. this is big problem, because these
> data are dated.

By definition, records in a relational table are *unordered*.

> could you tell me if there is a way to prevent that ?

Include e.g. a timestamp in your table, a use an ORDER BY clause when you retrieve records.

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