MYSQL table NOT sorted create

[jacka]

Hi
I wish to create a table. using MYSQL and which content of one field will be imported from an external file. I wish to always be able to keep its original format of this field, i.e I can always recreate the original order in the data was entered, even after some sorting of various other fields.

Will be very grateful for your help

[rocknbil]

If you use an auto_increment field, it will increment that field in the order you insert it and if it's set as the primary key will be the default sorting. So

record 1
record 2
record 3
record 4

create table test (id int(11) primary key auto_increment, textfield text)

then via automation or import or whatever,

insert into test (textfield) values ('record 1');
insert into test (textfield) values ('record 2');
insert into test (textfield) values ('record 3');
insert into test (textfield) values ('record 4');

should produce

1|record 1
2|record 2
3|record 3
4|record 4

so select textfield from test (without ordering) should output them in that order.