Re: Recreate Table With Sorted Data

[Martijn Tonies]

John,


> The solution was CREATE TABLE copyname SELECT * FROM originalname
>
> I was having problem with a PHP command that's not pulling what I want
> from the table Ruling out random order for the rows was narrowing the
> focus  on the PHP problem.

Have you not been reading what everyone said?

Tables ARE NOT ORDERED.

To get data in a certain order, you need to order your result-set, by
doing an ORDER BY on your query.


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