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Learn SQL Database Programming

You're reading from  Learn SQL Database Programming

Product type Book
Published in May 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838984762
Pages 564 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Josephine Bush Josephine Bush
Profile icon Josephine Bush

Table of Contents (24) Chapters

Preface 1. Section 1: Database Fundamentals
2. Introduction to Relational Database Management Systems 3. Installing and Using MySQL Workbench 4. Understanding Data Types 5. Designing and Creating a Database 6. Importing and Exporting Data 7. Section 2: Basic SQL Querying
8. Querying a Single Table 9. Querying Multiple Tables 10. Modifying Data and Table Structures 11. Section 3: Advanced SQL Querying
12. Working with Expressions 13. Grouping and Summarizing Data 14. Advanced Querying Techniques 15. Programmable Objects 16. Section 4: Presenting Your Findings
17. Exploring and Processing Your Data 18. Telling a Story with Your Data 19. Section 5: SQL Best Practices
20. Best Practices for Designing and Querying 21. SQL Appendix 22. Assessments 23. Other Books You May Enjoy

Using the ORDER BY clause

The ORDER BY clause helps you sort your results. You can sort your results in a few different ways, all of which will be covered in the following sections.

Learning how to use the ORDER BY clause to order query results

The ORDER BY clause is placed after FROM, as well as after WHERE, if you have a WHERE clause. You can order columns by ascending or descending order. Ascending is the default sort order, so you don't need to specify ascending explicitly.

Do not depend on the order of the rows in a result set, unless you have specified an ORDER BY clause. The order in which rows are returned may or may not be the same without an ORDER BY explicitly defined in your query.

To sort the columns...

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