Lesson 6. Sorting Data
You sort data by using the ORDER BY clause.
Data can be ordered in ascending order or descending order by using ASC or DESC respectively in your ORDER BY clause.
You can order the data using as many columns as you like. You can even specify ascending or descending on each column.
One Column
USE AdventureWorks2016
SELECT FirstName, LastName
FROM Person.Person
ORDER BY LastName
More Than One Column
USE AdventureWorks2016
SELECT FirstName, LastName
FROM Person.Person
ORDER BY FirstName, LastName
One Column Descending And Ascending
USE AdventureWorks2016
SELECT FirstName, LastName
FROM Person.Person
ORDER BY LastName ASC
SELECT FirstName, LastName
FROM Person.Person
ORDER BY LastName DESC
Multi-Column With Mixed Ordering
USE AdventureWorks2016
SELECT FirstName, LastName
FROM Person.Person
ORDER BY FirstName ASC, LastName DESC
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