Oracle ORDER BY: Sorting Records Guide

1 year ago
Sophia Anderson
1 minute

In Oracle, the ORDER BY clause can be used to sort the query results by fields. This clause can specify one or more fields at the end of the SELECT statement to indicate which field to sort by. For example:

SELECT * FROM table_name ORDER BY column_name;

This statement will sort the query results based on the specified column_name. You can use the keywords ASC (for ascending) or DESC (for descending) to specify the sort order, with the default being ascending order. For example:

SELECT * FROM table_name ORDER BY column_name ASC;

or

SELECT * FROM table_name ORDER BY column_name DESC;

Multiple fields can be sorted at the same time, for example:

SELECT * FROM table_name ORDER BY column1 ASC, column2 DESC;

This will first be sorted in ascending order by column1, then in descending order by column2 if column1 values are the same.

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