Jan 3, 2012 · It is just a coincidence, the idea is to sort based on the ID only. This can be for several reasons. For example user-specified order, ordered by another resultset on another …

Jan 12, 2010 · How can I sort multiple columns in SQL and in different directions? For instance, 'column1' would be sorted descendingly and 'column2' ascendingly.

Jun 2, 2017 · 31 Is it possible to define a sort order for the returned results? I would like the sort order to be 'orange' 'apple' 'strawberry' not ascending or descending. I know ORDER BY can …

Jan 15, 2022 · The ORDER BY clause causes the output rows to be sorted. The argument to ORDER BY is a list of expressions that are used as the key for the sort. The expressions do …

Basically, if you don't care enough to specify an ORDER BY clause, you shouldn't care about what order is chosen. If you do care about the resulting order, then tell SQL Server by adding …

May 6, 2017 · There is, by definition, no default sort order in SQL-compliant databases. Most database can, and will, return records in a different order depending on the nature of the query …

SELECT * FROM games ORDER BY name ASC But how can I sort the values of id column and save changes in table? Please, help.

205 The order of columns is critical. Now which order is correct it depends on how you are going to query it. An index can be used to do an exact seek or an range scan. An exact seek is when …

Oct 8, 2015 · If you have several different special sort values you could ORDER BY a more complicated expression or you could UNION together several SELECT s, with one SELECT …

I am using SQL Server 2008 R2. I want the priority based sorting for records in a table. So that I am using CASE WHEN statement in ORDER BY clause. The ORDER BY clause is as below : …