From: Martijn Tonies
Date: November 25 2003 8:22am
Subject: Re: help needed!
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Hi,

> I need to add a new auto field to my db, but I need to make sure the
records are listed in order of one of the other fields first which is a date
field.
>
> Any ideas how I do this would be greatly appreciated!

"listing records" is in no particular order, unless you ask for an order.

SELECT ... column names ...
FROM ... table name(s) ...
WHERE ... where clause ...
ORDER BY MyDateColumn

With regards,

Martijn Tonies
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