Microsoft sql order by

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Any additional feedback? Note The sort order is determined in part by the column's collation sequence. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams k gold badges silver badges bronze badges. For clarity, this sorts everything by column1 first and then by column2 whenever the column1 fields for two rows are equal. This is more clear for people that knows what stable sorting is. Show 4 more comments.

Thomas C. This answer is a great supplement to the very helpful and short accepted answer. The is some good example, many think that how can you sort 2 columns at single time which actually does not happen even if you put 2 columns for order query — mfs. It's providing same results when we sort with three columns and first column sorting order is same and rest everything is differ.

Ex: : 1. Firstname asc, Lastname desc, yearOfBirst asc and 2. Firstname asc, Lastname desc, yearOfBirst desc Is there any way we can overcome this? ParameshKorrakuti: That's the expected outcome. Thanks for the example, it makes people like me understand. Robusto 30k 8 8 gold badges 52 52 silver badges 76 76 bronze badges.

Quassnoi Quassnoi k 88 88 gold badges silver badges bronze badges. Now I perform Order By in these two columns by executing below command: Now again I insert new values in these two columns, where Alphabet value in ASC order: and the columns in Example table look like this. Now again perform the same operation: You can see the values in the first column are in desc order but second column is not in ASC order.

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Then, run your order-by query, you get second column as ASC order that means g,g,g — Pugal. Mohammad Atiour Islam Mohammad Atiour Islam 4, 3 3 gold badges 40 40 silver badges 45 45 bronze badges. That is, the red sedan and the blue van. So, the previous query returns any one red car and any one blue car and then orders the result of that union by the price.

The following example shows the correct method of writing this query to achieve the desired result. See the following Examples section in this article. The following examples use a constant value to specify the number of employees that are returned in the query result set. The following example uses a variable to specify the number of employees that are returned in the query result set.

There are employees in the HumanResources. Employee table. Because five percent of is a fractional value, the value is rounded up to the next whole number. The following example gets the top 10 percent of all employees with the highest salary and returns them in descending order according to their salary. Specifying WITH TIES ensures that employees with salaries equal to the lowest salary returned the last row are also included in the result set, even if it exceeds 10 percent of employees.

The following example deletes 20 rows from the PurchaseOrderDetail table that have due dates earlier than July 1, The following query deletes the 10 rows of the PurchaseOrderDetail table that have the earliest due dates. To ensure that only 10 rows are deleted, the column specified in the subselect statement PurchaseOrderID is the primary key of the table. Using a nonkey column in the subselect statement may result in the deletion of more than 10 rows if the specified column contains duplicate values.

The following example creates the table EmployeeSales and inserts the name and year-to-date sales data for the top five employees from the table HumanResources. The following example show how to do this.