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Development Tools Database Foundations Reading Data from Databases with SQL Ordering the Result Set

Posted by samilan
samilan
408 Points

ORDER BY year and ORDER BY year ASC

what difference does it make?

1 Answer

Jon Kussmann
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Jon Kussmann
Courses Plus Student 7,254 Points
Jon Kussmann
Jon Kussmann
Courses Plus Student 7,254 Points

Hi Samilan,

For some databases it does not matter. Many will default to ASC, but some may default to DESC which is why it is often better to specify which "direction" to order by. SQLite may do it one way while MySQL may do so another.