MySQL ORDER BY returns things in (apparently) random order !?

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Published on 2010-03-08T22:15:53Z Indexed on 2010/03/08 22:21 UTC
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The following query:

SELECT DISTINCT ClassName FROM SiteTree ORDER BY ClassName

is returning things in no apparent order!

I get the same result whether I quote column/table names, or use DISTINCT or not, or add ASC or DESC.

I assumed the indexes might be broken, or something like this, so tried dropping and recreating. Also tried REPAIR TABLE and CHECK TABLE.

The table collation is set to latin1_swedish_ci. All the textual columns are set to use UTF-8 and collation is set to utf8_general_ci

What could be causing this?

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