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MySQL - ORDER BY clause

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In this article, we would like to show you how to use ORDER BY clause in MySQL.

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Practical example

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To show how the ORDER BY clause works, we will use the following table:

MySQL - example data used with ORDER BY keyword
MySQL - example data used with ORDER BY keyword

Note:

At the end of this article you can find database preparation SQL queries.

Example 1

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In this example, we will sort users data by name.

Note:

By default ORDER BY clause sorts the data in ascending order.

Query:

Output:

MySQL - ORDER BY clause result (ascending)
MySQL - ORDER BY clause result (ascending)

Example 2

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In this example, we will sort users data by name in descending order.

Query:

Output:

MySQL - ORDER BY clause result (descending)
MySQL - ORDER BY clause result (descending)

Database preparation

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create_tables.sql file:

 insert_data.sql file:

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