The recent discussion on sorting brings to mind Dr. Codds dictum in the
relational model that     entries can be stored in any order -- this
greatly simplies design as the recent discussion proves.

In the ideal world perhaps IMAGE would return data via a sorted DBGET.

As I understand the IMAGE internals, maintaining a sort field has almost no
performance impact IF entries are added in sorted order.   Is this correct?


Given all the programmer time and concern over maintaining a sort order in
chains perhaps it would be cost effective and even considered to be good
database design practice to declare sort fields when data is added in sort
order.

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