Question

Whenever I manually insert data into my sql database, it doesn’t automatically resort itself. It’s a minor inconvenience, but it’s still there.

Also, future issue fast approaching. It’s sorting numerically, but only by the first digit. At the beginning of every entry is a number, which is what I want to sort by. I’m fast approaching the hundred digit mark, which will be sorted with the tens, under the twenties based on the first digit.

Answer 1

There is no such thing as “automatic sort” in a SQL database. You must specify the ORDER BY you desire in each query.

Data in your tables are inherently unsorted. Certain databases will order rows on disks according to a clustered index, but relying on this in the queries you write will lead to sloppy and brittle queries.