Sorting

[mcmuney]

How do you perform multiple sorts. For example "ORDER BY "X" DESC". What if I wanted to order first by x, then y. How would I do that...

ORDER BY "X" DESC AND ORDER BY "Y" DESC???

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How do you perform multiple sorts. For example "ORDER BY "X" DESC". What if I wanted to order first by x, then y. How would I do that...

ORDER BY "X" DESC AND ORDER BY "Y" DESC???
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is this it according to myql
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SELECT * FROM t1 ORDER BY key_part1 DESC, key_part2 ASC;
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You use ORDER BY on different keys:

SELECT * FROM t1 ORDER BY key1, key2;

You use ORDER BY on non-consecutive parts of a key:

SELECT * FROM t1 WHERE key2=constant ORDER BY key_part2;

You mix ASC and DESC:

SELECT * FROM t1 ORDER BY key_part1 DESC, key_part2 ASC;

The key used to fetch the rows is not the same as the one used in the ORDER BY:

SELECT * FROM t1 WHERE key2=constant ORDER BY key1;

You are joining many tables, and the columns in the ORDER BY are not all from the first
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[a href=\"http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/order-by-optimization.html\" target=\"_blank\"]http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/ord...timization.html[/a]

I tried lol

[wickning1]

It's just "ORDER BY x ASC, y DESC"