MySQL Tutorial – MySQL Order BY Clause
The ORDER BY clause is used to sort the records in the result set specified by a column name. You can sort the record in ascending (ASC) or descending (DESC) order.
ASC – ascending order (default) DESC – descending order
ORDER BY syntax:
SELECT column_name(s) FROM table_name ORDER BY column_name(s) ASC|DESC;
Let’s see some example of ORDER BY clause:
Here is our database table: (employee_record)
[TABLE=3]
We are going to select the f_name and l_name and sort it according by l_name. To do that, issue the command:
SELECT f_name, l_name FROM employee_record ORDER BY l_name;
Result:
+------------+---------+ | f_name | l_name | +------------+---------+ | Rolan | Algara | | John Lloyd | Cruz | | Sam | Milby | | Piolo | Pascual | | John | Prats | | Jericho | Rosales | +------------+---------+ 6 rows in set (0.11 sec)
