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[Brian O'Connor]

Right, so how is it that an auto_increment wouldn't sort by the id
number?  Because if it's being sorted by the order it got entered,
then it should still be in order.  At least that clears up a few
things for me.

On a side note, anyway to have phpMyAdmin default sort by primary key?


On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 18:05:26 -0500, Hans Zaunere <lists at zaunere.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Brian,
> 
> > I have a users table on my website that primary field 'id', which is
> > auto_incremental.  This usually never happens, and really doesn't
> > affect anything in anyway, but it's bugging me to why it's happening.
> > When I'm looking at it through phpMyAdmin, with the query "SELECT *
> > FROM users" the output is:
> >
> > 1 - 13
> > then 15
> > 14
> > 16 and on
> >
> > I'm not an expert on MySQL to any degree, but I though if no ORDER was
> > input, it auto sorted by the primary key (if none provided, I figured
> > index was then taken, then just the order it was input).
> 
> If no ORDER BY is used, then there is no sorting, primary key or not.  I don't know of any database that's any different.  It'll be in the order in which the data lies in the file, which should always be assumed as random.
> 
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Brian O'Connor