A program inserted rows into a DB2 table in the order of the clustering index but when the rows are viewed in DB2 Fileaid utility, they donot appear to be in the order the rows were physically inserted by the application. Any ideas ??
It is more easily readable/understandable if rows are ordered in the sequence its inserted. The order is very important for the application and therefore validating the order will surely save us a lot of time.
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The order is very important for the application and therefore validating the order will surely save us a lot of time.
Hopefully, any and all application requirements can be met using ORDER BY.
Physical sequence of data should not be counted on. As the old IBM caveat says "the results may be unpredictable". If you do not use an order by in your select, you cannot depend on the sequence of the data returned.
If you test with small amounts of test data, you may successfully test only to have problems when there i more volume and rows are frequently inserted, updated, and deleted.
