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SQL ORDER BY

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Basic SQL Commands
SQL SELECT
SQL DISTINCT
SQL WHERE SQL > SQL Commands > Order By
SQL AND OR
So far, we have seen how to get data out of a table using SELECT and WHERE commands. Often, however, we need to list
SQL IN
particular order. This could be in ascending order, in descending order, or could be based on either numerical value or tex
SQL BETWEEN
cases, we can use the ORDER BY keyword to achieve our goal.
SQL Wildcard
SQL LIKE The syntax for an ORDER BY statement is as follows:
SQL ORDER BY
SQL GROUP BY SELECT "column_name"
SQL HAVING FROM "table_name"
[WHERE "condition"]
SQL ALIAS
ORDER BY "column_name" [ASC, DESC];
SQL AS
SQL SELECT UNIQUE
The [ ] means that the WHERE statement is optional. However, if a WHERE clause exists, it comes before the ORDER BY
SQL JOIN
that the results will be shown in ascending order, and DESC means that the results will be shown in descending order. If n
SQL INNER JOIN
the default is ASC.
SQL OUTER JOIN
SQL LEFT OUTER JOIN It is possible to order by more than one column. In this case, the ORDER BY clause above becomes
SQL CROSS JOIN
SQL INSERT INTO ORDER BY "column_name1" [ASC, DESC], "column_name2" [ASC, DESC]
SQL INSERT INTO SELECT
SQL UPDATE Assuming that we choose ascending order for both columns, the output will be ordered in ascending order according to co
SQL DELETE FROM tie for the value of column 1, we then sort in ascending order by column 2.
Advanced SQL
For example, we may wish to list the contents of Table Store_Information by Sales, in descending order:
SQL UNION
SQL UNION ALL Table Store_Information
SQL Inline View
SQL INTERSECT Store_Name Sales Txn_Date
SQL MINUS Los Angeles 1500 Jan-05-1999
SQL LIMIT San Diego 250 Jan-07-1999
SQL TOP San Francisco 300 Jan-08-1999
SQL Subquery Boston 700 Jan-08-1999
SQL EXISTS
SQL CASE we key in,
SQL DECODE
SQL AUTO INCREMENT SELECT Store_Name, Sales, Txn_Date
SQL IDENTITY FROM Store_Information
ORDER BY Sales DESC;
SEQUENCE & NEXTVAL

SQL Functions Result:


SQL Average
SQL COUNT
Store_Name Sales Txn_Date
SQL MAX
Los Angeles 1500 Jan-05-1999
SQL MIN
Boston 700 Jan-08-1999
SQL SUM
San Francisco 300 Jan-08-1999
SQL ROUND
San Diego 250 Jan-07-1999
String Functions
SQL CAST In addition to column name, we may also use column position (based on the SQL query) to indicate which column we wan
SQL CONVERT ORDER BY clause. The first column is 1, second column is 2, and so on. In the above example, we will achieve the same re
SQL CONCATENATE following command:
SQL SUBSTRING
SQL INSTR SELECT Store_Name, Sales, Txn_Date
SQL TRIM FROM Store_Information
ORDER BY 2 DESC;
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ORDER BY 2 DESC;
SQL LENGTH
SQL REPLACE
SQL TO_DATE
The column(s) we use to sort the result do not need to be in the SELECT clause. For example, the following SQL,

Date Functions
SELECT Store_Name
FROM Store_Information
ORDER BY Sales DESC;

works fine and will give the following result:

Store_Name
Los Angeles
Boston
San Francisco
San Diego

It is also possible to sort the result by an expression. For example, in the following table,

Table Product_Sales

Product_ID Price Units


1 10 9
2 15 4
3 25 3

we can use the following SQL to order the results by Revenue (defined as Price * Units):

SELECT Product_ID, Price*Units Revenue


FROM Product_Sales
ORDER BY Price*Units DESC;

Result:

Product_ID Revenue
1 90
3 75
2 60

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Exercises

For these exercises, assume we have a table called User_Sales with the following data:

Table User_Sales

First_Name Last_Name Gender Join_Date Sales


Sophie Lee F Apr-05-2015 500
Richard Brown M Apr-05-2015 200
Jamal Santo M Apr-09-2015 350
Casey Healy M Apr-09-2015 80
Jill Wilkes F Apr-15-2015 210

1. Which of the following SQL statement is valid? (There can be more than one answer)
a) SELECT * FROM User_Sales ORDER BY Sales;
b) SELECT * FROM User_Sales ORDER BY Last_Name DESC;
c) SELECT * FROM User_Sales ORDER BY First_Name WHERE Sales > 100;
d) SELECT * FROM User_Sales ORDER BY Last_Name, First_Name;
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2. What is the result of the following query?


SELECT * FROM User_Sales WHERE Join_Date IN ('Apr-05-2015','Apr-15-2015') ORDER BY Sales;

3. What is the result of the following query?


SELECT * FROM User_Sales ORDER BY Join_Date DESC, Sales;

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