Re: UNION and ORDER BY

I *think* if you use unionall, it should do what you want here...

I hope, it helps.

Dima

Cool Screen wrote:
> With:
>
> (select *
> from table1
> where col1=1
> order by name)
> union
> (select *
> from table1
> where col1=2
> order by random())
>
> UNION apparently reorders all the rows of the result
> in their natural order (sequence in which they where
> inserted). Is there a way to have the first part of
> the results ordered by name, and the second part by random()?
>
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