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dr223
Constraint Violating Yak Guru

444 Posts

Posted - 2013-10-09 : 05:22:20

Hi,

I have the following query which works fine in DESIGN mode. When I run the query details are sorted in OrganisationName as required. However, when I option to right click and select Open View it is NOT. Instead it sorts it with the first Field which is Primary key and ID (OrganisationID).. I dont understand this behaviour..

SELECT     TOP (100) PERCENT dbo.tblOrganisation.OrganisationName, dbo.tblOrganisation.Country, dbo.tblOrganisation.LicenceEffectiveDate, 
                      dbo.tblOrganisation.LicenceExpiryDate, dbo.tblOrganisation.DateDisabled, dbo.tblOrganisation.CreationDate, 
                      dbo.tblCurrSelectedStatus.Curr_Status
FROM         dbo.tblOrganisation INNER JOIN
                      dbo.tblCurrSelectedStatus ON dbo.tblOrganisation.Status = dbo.tblCurrSelectedStatus.Curr_Status
ORDER BY dbo.tblOrganisation.OrganisationName

Thank you

visakh16
Very Important crosS Applying yaK Herder

52326 Posts

Posted - 2013-10-09 : 05:42:09

its by design
see

http://visakhm.blogspot.com/2010/01/behaviour-of-order-by-inside-view.html

for getting correct order from view you need to use ORDER BY in statement which selects from view

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Imad
Starting Member

1 Post

Posted - 2013-10-09 : 08:00:35

Hi,

It is because views did not support order by clause. Try to create view without order by clause and then write select from view with order clause. It will work for you.

visakh16
Very Important crosS Applying yaK Herder

52326 Posts

Posted - 2013-10-09 : 08:06:45

quote:
Originally posted by Imad

Hi,

It is because views did not support order by clause. Try to create view without order by clause and then write select from view with order clause. It will work for you.

They used to support it in SQL 2000
See the posted link

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