Comments on: ROWNUM, Random updates and the Alert Log – A trip down Memory Lane http://mikesmithers.wordpress.com/2011/09/19/rownum-random-updates-and-the-alert-log-%e2%80%93-a-trip-down-memory-lane/ Oracle - for when it was like that when you got there Thu, 23 May 2013 16:21:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: jgarry http://mikesmithers.wordpress.com/2011/09/19/rownum-random-updates-and-the-alert-log-%e2%80%93-a-trip-down-memory-lane/#comment-9579 Thu, 27 Oct 2011 00:15:37 +0000 http://mikesmithers.wordpress.com/?p=1123#comment-9579 On the plus side, the rows seem to be read in in correct order by default ( i.e. the order in which they are read from the file) so the result set from the query will be in the correct order, even though no ORDER BY clause is specified.

NOTE – that last bit is supposition on my part. That’s the way it appears to be working, but I haven’t found anything in the Oracle documentation to confirm it.

You might consider what happens with parallel access.

]]> By: Scott http://mikesmithers.wordpress.com/2011/09/19/rownum-random-updates-and-the-alert-log-%e2%80%93-a-trip-down-memory-lane/#comment-8330 Tue, 27 Sep 2011 00:52:34 +0000 http://mikesmithers.wordpress.com/?p=1123#comment-8330 Nice ;-)

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