Tuesday, August 21, 2007 - Posts

What is the position of a row ?

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The simple answer is there isn't one.

If you insert 1000 rows into a table and then want to get back the 43rd row you inserted you can't. You can read through all rows and return the 43rd one that the database reads from the table but that is not the same thing.

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