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Subject: Re: Question on PostgreSQL DB behavior w.r.t JOIN and sort order.
Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2016 07:43:03 +0100
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Venkatesan, Sekhar schrieb am 09.02.2016 um 06:21:
> So from what I understand, you say in postgres, if the sort order is not specified,
> postgres returns results in any order. Am I right?
This is nothing Postgres specific. This is true for *every* DBMS.
Without an order by, the DBMS is free to return the rows in any order it wants.
If you have seen a specific order in SQL Server that was pure coincidence and can *not* be relied upon.
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