• Depends what you mean by 'not in order'

    Neither parallelism, nor multiple tempDB files are going to result in a query with an order by returning data out of order. Any time there's a query without an order by, no order is ever guaranteed and hence no order should ever be assumed, no matter what the server setup is.

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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