How to maintain the order of insertion in SQL Server

Question

I am just wondering if I can maintain the order of insertion of data in SQL Server?

I am working on my own project and it is kind of blog site having a number of pos

Answer 1

When you specify ORDER BY in an INSERT...SELECT statement, SQL Server will assign IDENTITY values in the order specified. However, that does not mean rows are necessarily inserted in that order.

If you need rows returned in a specific order, you must use ORDER BY to guarantee ordering. Indexes can be leverage provide order data efficiently depending on the query particulars.