Re: ORDER BY command

2001-01-16 Thread Jeremy D. Zawodny
On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 02:40:22PM -0600, Robert wrote: > Hello. I am trying to get the results from a query to be ORDERED by > ASCENDING instead of the default DESCENDING. Is this possible, and > if so how? I mis-wrote in my reply (which hasn't come thru the list yet). You can use "ASC" but now

Re: ORDER BY command

2001-01-16 Thread Jeremy D. Zawodny
On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 02:40:22PM -0600, Robert wrote: > Hello. I am trying to get the results from a query to be ORDERED by > ASCENDING instead of the default DESCENDING. Is this possible, and > if so how? As the manual explains: SELECT . ORDER BY foo ASC or SELECT . ORDER B

RE: ORDER BY command

2001-01-16 Thread G r e g L a w r i e
Hmmm, you seem to have things a little backwards as ASCENDING should be the default order. However, as per the manual, the following will do it SELECT * FROM tbl_name ORDER BY col_name ASC To sort in the opposite order SELECT * FROM tbl_name ORDER BY col_name DESC Regards, Greg >

Re: ORDER BY command

2001-01-16 Thread j.urban
select col1,col2 from table1 order by col1 ASC; Please see the manual: http://www.mysql.com/doc/S/E/SELECT.html On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, Robert wrote: > Hello. I am trying to get the results from a query to be ORDERED by > ASCENDING instead of the default DESCENDING. Is this possible, and if so >