[dba-SQLServer] Strange happening

Maybe it's a plan that's been pre-buffered, try the following before you
re-run the query again or sp_recompile viewname.

DBCC DROPCLEANBUFFERS

DBCC FREEPROCCACHE

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Francisco

On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 3:46 PM, jwcolby <jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com>
wrote:

> I have a pretty strange happening.
>
> I have a table with a PK which is an autoincrement int.  When I create a
> view and include that field, then all order by clauses are ignored.  IOW I
> create a query
>
> SELECT PKID, Fld1, fld2, fld3 ORDER By Fld3 DESC
>
> And when executed the data is ordered by PKID.
>
> If I save the view and then create a QUERY SELECT * from MyView ORDER BY
> Fld3 DESC then it does in fact order by fld3 desc order.  If I save THAT
> SQL
> MSTATEMENT into another view and then execute that view, I am right back
> to
> ordered by PKID.
>
> I am at a loss as to why this happens and how to avoid it.  I am trying to
> pull the first 1 million rows, ordered in a random order (for testing of
> another app) so I tried creating a view where I order by zip 4 DESC.  I
> store the view and then export the view into a CSV file.  The data comes
> out
> ordered on the PKID.
>
> Truly weird!
>
> I can't go further on my testing until I get this resolved.
>
> John W. Colby
> Colby Consulting
> www.ColbyConsulting.com
>
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