Category: SQL Order By

  • SQL SORTING ON MULTIPLE COLUMNS

    Let’s take an example of customer table which has many columns, the following SQL statement selects all customers from the table named “customer”, stored by the “country” and “Customer-Name” columns:

  • SQL ORDER BY LIMIT

    We can retrieve limited rows from the database. I can be used in pagination where are forced to show only limited records like 10, 50, 100 etc. LIMIT CLAUSE FOR ORACLE SQL: If you want to use LIMIT clause with SQL, you have to use ROWNUM queries because it is used after result are selected.…

  • SQL ORDER BY RANDOM

    If you want the resulting record to be ordered randomly, you should use the following codes according to several databases. Here is a question: what is the need to fetch a random record or a row from a database? Sometimes you may want to display random information like articles, links, pages, etc., to your user. If you…

  • SQL ORDER BY CLAUSE WITH DESCENDING ORDER

    Before writing the queries for sorting the records, let us understand the syntax. Syntax to sort the records in descending order: Let us explore more on this topic with the help of examples. We will use the MySQL database for writing the queries in examples. Consider we have customers table with the following records: ID…

  • SQL ORDER BY CLAUSE WITH ASCENDING ORDER

    Before writing the queries for sorting the records, let us understand the syntax. Syntax to sort the records in ascending order: Syntax to sort the records in ascending order without using ASC keyword: Let us explore more on this topic with the help of examples. We will use the MySQL database for writing the queries…

  • SQL ORDER BY Clause

    Before writing the queries for sorting the records, let us understand the syntax. Syntax to sort the records in ascending order: Syntax to sort the records in descending order: Syntax to sort the records in ascending order without using ASC keyword: Let us explore more on this topic with the help of examples. We will…