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Today after one of the drives on our sql server ran out of space. The drive contained eventracker logs, so I didn't think it was a big deal, but then I noticed when I insert a record into a database, it inserts it above previous records instead of appending it.

When I do select * the records that were inserted show up first. Is there something I can do to fix this?

section_d   section
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15          SDSD
16          SDSD2
17          SDSD2
18          adf

(4 row(s) affected)

insert into test2 values ('inserted row')

section_d   section
-----------------------
19          inserted row
15          SDSD
16          SDSD2
17          SDSD2
18          adf

(5 row(s) affected)
marc_s
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Max Marchevsky
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Databases do not return rows in a given order unless you supply an ORDER BY clause in your query, thus making the INSERT "order" meaningless. The order of a SELECT * FROM MYTABLE; query is undefined.

Apologies for the simple answer!

Philᵀᴹ
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