Jonathan’s book is available in India.

Rgds,
Gokul

Your articles are lucid and to the point. I got your book cost based fundamentals from USA through one of my friends as it is not available in India.

Regards
Satish

It’ s easy to build such an exemple (see below) but the real question is: Why do you need it?
A group by (and any other clauses but “order by”) did never guaranteed any order.

create table t (grp integer, val number)
partition by range (grp)
(partition values less than (1),
partition values less than (2),
partition values less than (3),
partition values less than (4),
partition values less than (5),
partition values less than (maxvalue)
)
parallel 3
/
insert into t
select mod(rownum,5), object_id
from dba_objects
/
commit;
begin
dbms_stats.gather_table_stats
(user,’T',method_opt=>’FOR COLUMNS SIZE 5 GRP’);
end;
/
SQL> select grp, count(*) from t group by grp;

GRP COUNT(*)
———- ———-
0 1666
1 1667
3 1667
4 1667
2 1667

SQL> select * from v$version;

BANNER
—————————————————————-
Oracle8i Enterprise Edition Release 8.1.7.4.0 – Production

Regards

Anyway, Thanks.