in reply to sorting a database table with primary keys

I may be missing something, but why not just ask the database to sort it in the first place? That would have been a much more useful snippet.

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Re^2: sorting a database table with primary keys
by jeremyh (Beadle) on Apr 12, 2006 at 00:59 UTC
    Sometimes it's useful to re-use the data from a DB query (in a different order) without re-executing the query, so it would be handy to sort it locally.

    That's not demonstrated in this example, but I've done this before.

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