TomThomson (2/17/2013)
While this is the only way to create a view (including all the table's rows and) having an order by clause at the top level select in its definition, it doesn't necessarily follw that rows will be returned in that order when selected from the view unless the order clause is repeated at the level abobe the view.So the chances are that this view does nothing for usability (and hence nothing useful at all).
Thanks for the clarity on that. At first I thought I just discovered how to accomplish this in a view and then learn from you that I still have to query the data with an order by clause anyway. Oh well.