You may have encountered a bug; one thing you could do to avoid having to downgrade is specify the column number you wish to sort on (4th column in your case), as in:
ORDER BY 4 DESC LIMIT 10; Dan On 6/22/07, Andrew Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I upgraded to Mysql 5.0.42 from 4.1.14 yesterday. Afterwards, a query the I run every day to capture data on nodes that have increased backup load the most in TSM, seems to be ignoring my "order by" statement. Here is the query and the output: mysql> select occupancy.node_name as NodeName,nodetrend.occupancy/1024 as "Occupancy on 09/24/2006 (GB)",sum(occupancy.physical_mb)/1024 as "Occupancy Today (GB)",(sum(occupancy.physical_mb) - nodetrend.occupancy)/1024 as "Occupancy Increase (GB)" from nodetrend,occupancy where nodetrend.date="2006-09-24" and occupancy.stgpool_name='BACKUPPOOL' and nodetrend.node_name=occupancy.node_name group by occupancy.node_name order by "Occupancy Increase (GB)" desc limit 10; +-------------+------------------------------+----------------------+-------------------------+ | NodeName | Occupancy on 09/24/2006 (GB) | Occupancy Today (GB) | Occupancy Increase (GB) | +-------------+------------------------------+----------------------+-------------------------+ | AMHFP01 | 213.378672 | 188.096826| - 25.281846 | | AMHFP01-S | 15.284570 | 25.520684| 10.236113 | | AMHROCP01 | 8.740791 | 15.711035| 6.970244 | | ANDYC | 2.503848 | 2.503848| 0.000000 | | BHSCAFAS01 | 7.057617 | 11.109980| 4.052363 | | BJC11101828 | 5.401748 | 3.433613| - 1.968135 | | BJC11113758 | 15.911094 | 15.911094| 0.000000 | | BJCAMSQL01 | 72.650596 | 102.609326| 29.958730 | | BJCAMWEB01 | 3.703057 | 8.468467| 4.765410 | | BJCBCA01 | 22.580410 | 33.760918| 11.180508 | +-------------+------------------------------+----------------------+-------------------------+ 10 rows in set (0.24 sec) Any suggestions? I can try backing off to 5.0.41 if anyone thinks that would help. Thanks -- Andy Carlson --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gamecube:$150,PSO:$50,Broadband Adapter: $35, Hunters License: $8.95/month, The feeling of seeing the red box with the item you want in it:Priceless.