- From: Jonathan Robie <jwrobie@mindspring.com>
- Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 19:13:56 -0500
- To: Michael Kay <mhk@mhk.me.uk>
- Cc: 'Michael Dyck' <jmdyck@ibiblio.org>, public-qt-comments@w3.org
Michael Kay wrote: >After reading your note, I'm now inclined to suspect that ORDER BY is >flawed. I have never been convinced that there is a genuine use case for >sorting on values that can't be computed from the items in the output >sequence. > > To me, the biggest reason for computing sort orders from the input sequence is to restrict sorting to be based only on things known in the input - it makes it a lot easier to identify promising indexes. Jonathan
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