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Asked: 2026-05-10T23:56:55+00:00

I was wondering if anyone has a good solution to a problem I’ve encountered

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I was wondering if anyone has a good solution to a problem I’ve encountered numerous times during the last years.

I have a shopping cart and my customer explicitly requests that it’s order is significant. So I need to persist the order to the DB.

The obvious way would be to simply insert some OrderField where I would assign the number 0 to N and sort it that way.

But doing so would make reordering harder and I somehow feel that this solution is kinda fragile and will come back at me some day.

(I use C# 3,5 with NHibernate and SQL Server 2005)

Thank you

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  1. FWIW, I think the way you suggest (i.e. committing the order to the database) is not a bad solution to your problem. I also think it’s probably the safest/most reliable way.

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