From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2004-03-03T20:54:27+09:00
Subject: Re: why are Hashes so unsorted? what's your solution?

On Wednesday, March 3, 2004, 4:22:44 PM, Ruby wrote, in part:

> I use MySQL databases a lot.  Let's say I have a query to find the
> top-selling albums in my store:

> SELECT sku, artistname, albumtitle, sold FROM albums
> ORDER BY sold DESC LIMIT 20;

> When I get the hash of results from the database, [...]

Surely you get an _array_ of results from the database?

  [ { "sku" => "sku1", "artistname" => "Miles Davis", ... },
    { ... },
    ...
  ]

Could you show me the data type you get back?
  
Gavin