How to save a particular, mutable “order” into a database

Question

Suppose I have some objects, and I want the user to be able to reorder them in any way they wish, say, by dragging them around. So I\'d have

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Answer 1

Yup, in a relational database there is no order, it's one of the fundamental concepts. So there's just no way without a numerical value or something like that.