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No: implied sort with group by

Zeugswetter Andreas <andreas.zeugswetter@telecom.at> — 1998-01-27T10:13:24Z

> Does the SQL standard say anything about an implied sort when
> grouping or is it up to the user to include an ORDER BY clause?
> darrenk

Without order by the result set is never guaranteed to be ordered in a
specific way (standard speak). The order is dependent on the chosen
query path, which
changes from query to query.

Andreas