SORT Order of Execution

2 Sort Statements and Functions

SORT Order of Execution

SORT statement execution is strongly interrelated to DBMS and Eloquence file storage operations (see the previous section). In order to execute a statement, all statements which have pointers into the statement to be executed must have previously been executed (e.g., to execute a FIND, a WORKFILE IS # and at least one IN DATA SET must have been previously executed).

Eloquence Sort Manual - 19 DEC 2002