SQL ORDER BY DESC: Sort Data Descending

In SQL, you can use the ORDER BY clause to sort the results in descending order. This clause can be used with the SELECT statement to specify the column by which to sort the query results.

For instance, if there is a table called “employees” with columns such as employee_id, first_name, and last_name. To sort the query results in descending order based on the employee_id column, the following statement can be used:

SELECT * FROM employees
ORDER BY employee_id DESC;

In the above example, DESC is the keyword used in the ORDER BY clause to specify descending order. If you want to achieve ascending order, you can use the ASC keyword (by default, ORDER BY arranges in ascending order).

Please note that the ORDER BY clause is typically placed at the end of a SELECT statement.