How to join two tables together with same number of rows by their order

Question

I am using SQL2000 and I would like to join two table together based on their positions

For example consider the following 2 tables:

table1
-------
name
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Answer 1

Absolutely. Use the following query but make sure that (order by) clause uses the same columns the order of rows will change which you dont want.

select
(
row_number() over(order by name) rno, * from Table1
) A  
(
row_number() over(order by name) rno, * from Table2
) B
JOIN A.rno=B.rno

order by clause can be modified according to user linkings

The above query produces unique row_numbers for each row, which an be joined with row_numbers of the other table