Order By in Union View is ignored

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Order By in Union View is ignored

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Ken Blum
Constraint Violating Yak Guru

383 Posts

Posted - 2004-12-28 : 12:24:23

I run the following in QA without any problems. It's combining a table and another view via a Union. However when I run it as a View, it does not sort by ABALPH. How come?

CREATE VIEW dbo.Lab_Customers
AS
SELECT TOP 100 PERCENT ABALPH AS CustomerName, ABMCU AS Location, ABAN8 AS CustomerNo
FROM PRODDTA.F0101
WHERE (ABAT1 = 'CS')

UNION

SELECT TOP 100 PERCENT Description AS ABALPH, MarketSegment AS Location, CAST(MarketSegment AS FLOAT) AS CustomerNo
FROM dbo.MarketSegments

ORDER BY ABALPH

TIA,

nr
SQLTeam MVY

12543 Posts

Posted - 2004-12-28 : 12:29:30

It does't always honour it.
try this -
SELECT TOP 100 PERCENT *
from
(
ABALPH AS CustomerName, ABMCU AS Location, ABAN8 AS CustomerNo
FROM PRODDTA.F0101
WHERE (ABAT1 = 'CS')
UNION
SELECT Description AS ABALPH, MarketSegment AS Location, CAST(MarketSegment AS FLOAT) AS CustomerNo
FROM dbo.MarketSegments
) a
ORDER BY CustomerName

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Ken Blum
Constraint Violating Yak Guru

383 Posts

Posted - 2004-12-28 : 12:43:28

That did it. Thanks.

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