Can someone confirm this?

Microsoft apparently seems to think that using ORDER BY in views is valid. I just saw that they put out a fix for ORDER BY not working in views…

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/926292

My philosophy is that I see views as a presentation of data (a way of viewing the data) which involves lower level processing of data, sometimes simple in nature, sometimes more complicated. Along these lines, I view the use of ORDER BY in views (in part) as a means of customer service so that a user of the view doesn’t have to understand internals to determine how to sort. For that matter, based on some of the discussion points previously mentioned, I could argue that the WHERE clause should also not be used in views…just let the user determine how they want to work the the data returned from the view. In real life I don’t support this and think WHERE clauses have a place in views, and in the same vein, so do ORDER BY clauses.

Also, sometimes I have wanted users to have a default view of something, which includes sorting. This comes in handy so I (and others) don’t have to take time to re-figure out how to sort the data each time we use the view for something. And views are useful (addressing a previous user’s question) because sometimes (when working with tools such as Access or InfoPath for example) complicated queries or SELECT statements cause problems and simplifying with a view is a slick and elegant solution.

So, while apparently I speak heresy according to some, I see nothing wrong with ORDER BY in views and was very annoyed and perplexed when I saw views which worked as expected in SQL 2000 not work in SQL 2008 when we [finally] upgraded.

and if possible can someboday link me to the article of whats the use of views ? why its important and when its important ? because you can get the same result using query !!

as per my knowledge views are for sharing data with 3rd party or something but m not sure about it.. i have googled about this but i never found simple and easy to understand information on this with little example.. hope to get reply from Mr. Pinal on this..

thanks
hs

CREATE VIEW vw_ViewLimit1
AS
SELECT TOP (select count(*) from Sales.SalesOrderDetail) *
FROM Sales.SalesOrderDetail
ORDER BY SalesOrderDetailID DESC
GO
– Select from view
SELECT *
FROM vw_ViewLimit1
GO

Muirhec

View Querry
SELECT Top 35000 INV.Item as Item ,INV.BinLoc as BinLoc,INV.Series as Supplier ,ISNULL((INV.Qty-ISNULL(ALLO.RQty,0)),INV.Qty) AS freeQty,INV.Qty as iQty
,UPC,Series
FROM DirectDATAINE5.dbo.WSL_InvLocation AS INV

LEFT JOIN (
SELECT szItem,szBinLoc ,ISNULL(SUM(iReqQty),0) AS RQty
FROM .dbo.tblAllocatedLocations
WHERE boolNUsed=0 AND boolCollected=0
GROUP BY szItem,szBinLoc

) AS ALLO
ON(ALLO.szItem COLLATE DATABASE_DEFAULT =INV.Item COLLATE DATABASE_DEFAULT AND ALLO.szBinLoc COLLATE DATABASE_DEFAULT =INV.BinLoc COLLATE DATABASE_DEFAULT )

LEFT JOIN (
SELECT ISNULL(1,0) AS Report,WL.szBinLoc,MA.szUPC,MA.szSeries FROM tblLocWsl AS WL
INNER JOIN dbo.tblJobsManifest AS MA
ON(MA.iUid=WL.iUID)
WHERE boolResolve = 0
) AS Rep
ON(INV.BinLoc COLLATE DATABASE_DEFAULT =Rep.szBinLoc COLLATE DATABASE_DEFAULT AND INV.Series COLLATE DATABASE_DEFAULT =Rep.szSeries COLLATE DATABASE_DEFAULT AND INV.UPC COLLATE DATABASE_DEFAULT =Rep.szUPC COLLATE DATABASE_DEFAULT)

WHERE INV.Qty>0 AND ISNULL((INV.Qty-ISNULL(ALLO.RQty,0)),INV.Qty)>0 –AND Modified>’2011-01-01 00:00:00.000′
–AND SUBSTRING (INV.BinLoc,1,1) = ‘A’
AND Report IS NULL AND UPC= ’20612351′ AND Series= ’00245′—-return Values

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/956717/

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/936305/

select top 100 percent * FROM Sales.SalesOrderDetail
ORDER BY SalesOrderDetailID DESC

SELECT TOP (SELECT COUNT(*) FROM Sales.SalesOrderDetail) *
FROM Sales.SalesOrderDetail
ORDER BY SalesOrderDetailID DESC

And like that the result shows 100 percent of the rows.

Regards :)

If you want to use order by in view without using TOP clause use view with Schema

as

i have view from two table

CREATE VIEW vw_saggi
AS

SELECT dbo.Employees.FirstName, dbo.newt.LastName, dbo.Employees.EmployeeID
FROM dbo.First_table CROSS JOIN dbo.Second_table order by FirstName desc;

—–sort view using order by clause———————-

SELECT * from dbo.vw_saggi

order by FirstName desc;
———————————————————

try this

Satwinder Saggi

DBA

Thanks,
Pinal