From: Dan Nelson
Date: August 19 2003 8:26pm
Subject: Re: "hard" sort table order
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In the last episode (Aug 19), anders thoresson said:
> Is it possible to resort the rows in a table like in a query where using 
> ORDER BY, but have to new sort order stored in the table structure?

CREATE TABLE newtable AS SELECT * FROM oldtable ORDER BY myfield

newtable will have its records physically sorted.

You can also use myisamchk -R on a table to force the records to be
physically sorted by a particular index.  This only works on MyISAM
tables.

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	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@stripped