Posted by Erland Sommarskog on 01/31/06 00:53

Doug (drmiller100@hotmail.com) writes:
> huh. I never knew that ordering a view was unsupported. It always has
> worked, I bet it always will, but it is good to know.

Some people have found that "always" does not include SQL 2005.

> OTOH, if you take the EXACT same code, stuff it into a stored
> procedure, it is guaranteed to work.
>
> yet another reason not ot use views.

Yep!


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