I also understand that the "correct" way of sorting a view is by putting an
ORDER BY around the
SELECT statement querying the view.
But being relatively new to practical SQL and the usages of views, I would like to understand why this is done so by design. If I've followed the history correctly, this was once possible and was explicitly removed from SQL Server 2008 and so on (don't quote me on the exact version).
However, the best reason I can come up with as to why Microsoft removed this feature is because "a view is an unsorted collection of data".
I am assuming there is a good, logical reason as to why a View should be unsorted. Why can't a view just be a flattened out collection of data? Why specifically un-sorted? It doesn't seem that hard to come up with situations where (at least to me / IMHO) it seems perfectly intuitive to have a sorted view.