Learn MySQL for Developing Web Application

Learn to build web applications with PHP and MySQL, Start your own blog, e-commerce site. In this tutorial you will learn queries of MySQL and MySQLi.

SQL ORDER BY


The ORDER BY keyword is used to sort the result-set in ascending or descending order.

The ORDER BY keyword sorts the records in ascending order by default. To sort the records in descending order, use the DESC keyword.

ORDER BY Syntax

SELECT column1, column2, ...
FROM table_name
ORDER BY column1, column2, ... ASC|DESC;

ORDER BY DESC

The following SQL statement selects all customers from the "Customers" table, sorted DESCENDING by the "Country" column:

See this example:

SELECT * FROM Customers
ORDER BY Country DESC;

ORDER BY Several Columns

The following SQL statement selects all customers from the "Customers" table, sorted by the "Country" and the "CustomerName" column:

See this example:

SELECT * FROM Customers
ORDER BY Country, CustomerName;

ORDER BY Several Columns

The following SQL statement selects all customers from the "Customers" table, sorted ascending by the "Country" and descending by the "CustomerName" column:

See this example:

SELECT * FROM Customers
ORDER BY Country ASC, CustomerName DESC;