Re: [Firebird-devel] FIRST/SKIP vs ORDER BY or select expressions strike back

[Mike N. <ta...@al...>]

> >Mike Nordell wrote:
> >
> > > I believe a FIRST/SKIP on an unordered set would be completely
useless.

Ann W. Harrison added:

> I use FIRST/SKIP to test formatting etc. while developing programs...
> I really don't care about the test data, just want to see a finite
> amount of it.

Fair - a debugging aid. But would it make any sense to have it in a
production system (I don't question the merits, I'm trying to see if there
actually maybe is a use for a subset of more-or-less random data)?

/Mike