There is a "primary key" which is not the main order to access rows.
What I am emulating is a large memory space and the "primary key" is just
used not to duplicate rows.
In the current DB I use, I simply use the row number as my "memory pointer".
Since rows are fixed length, it should be a straightforward matter to point
to the right one and not require a rowid and key.
mySQL must have an internal mean of referencing rows and that is what I'd
like to use.
I know there are limitations to the approach such as not issuing an ALTER
... ORDER BY ... but that won't be more necessary than changing an address
on a memory stick ...
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> On Thu, 2002-10-31 at 18:15, horizonx@stripped wrote:
> > I need a 20 GB + DB that I'd like to access by row number or
> physical order.
> >
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> SELECT ... ORDER BY PrimaryKey.
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> You do have a primary key in the table, right?
> --
> Michael T. Babcock
> CTO, FibreSpeed Ltd.
>
