SQL Row_Number() function in Where Clause without ORDER BY?

Question

I found a bunch of questions on this topic with nice solutions but none of them actually deal with what to do if the data is not to be ordered in one specific way. For insta

Answer 1

Just in case it is useful to someone else. I just figured it out from elsewhere:

WITH MyCte AS 
(
    select   employee_id,
             RowNum = row_number() OVER (ORDER BY (SELECT 0))
    from     V_EMPLOYEE 
    ORDER BY Employee_ID
)
SELECT  employee_id
FROM    MyCte
WHERE   RowNum > 0