Wrong order in Table valued Function(keep “order” of a recursive CTE)

Question

a few minutes ago i asked here how to get parent records with a recursive CTE. This works now, but I get the wrong order(backwards, ordered by the PK idData) when i create a Tab

Answer 1

There is no ORDER BY anywhere in sight - neither in the table-valued function, nor in the SELECT from that TVF.

Any "ordering" will be totally arbitrary and coincidental.

If you want a specific order, you need to specify an ORDER BY.

So why can't you just add an ORDER BY to your SELECT:

 SELECT * FROM dbo._previousClaimsByFiData(16177344) 
 ORDER BY (whatever you want to order by)....

or put your ORDER BY into the TVF:

INSERT INTO @retPreviousClaims
    SELECT idData FROM PreviousClaims
    ORDER BY idData DESC (or whatever it is you want to order by...)