I have a query that looks like this: SELECT article FROM table1 ORDER BY publish_date LIMIT 20 How does ORDER BY work? Will it order all records, then get the first 20, or will it get 20 records and order them by the publish_date field? If it’s the last one, you’re not guaranteed to really … Read more
How do I sort a MySQL table by two columns? What I want are articles sorted by highest ratings first, then most recent date. As an example, this would be a sample output (left # is the rating, then the article title, then the article date) +================+=============================+==============+ | article_rating | article | article_time | +================+=============================+==============+ … Read more
Currently I am doing a very basic OrderBy in my statement. SELECT * FROM tablename WHERE visible=1 ORDER BY position ASC, id DESC The problem with this is that NULL entries for ‘position’ are treated as 0. Therefore all entries with position as NULL appear before those with 1,2,3,4. eg: NULL, NULL, NULL, 1, 2, … Read more
I have a SQL table with a datetime field. The field in question can be null. I have a query and I want the results sorted ascendingly by the datetime field, however I want rows where the datetime field is null at the end of the list, not at the beginning. Is there a simple … Read more
I’m sure this will be a relatively simple one. I have a LINQ query that I want to order by the most recently created date. See: var itemList = from t in ctn.Items where !t.Items && t.DeliverySelection orderby t.Delivery.SubmissionDate descending select t; I have also tried: var itemList = (from t in ctn.Items where !t.Items … Read more
How can I sort by multiple columns in SQL and in different directions. column1 would be sorted descending, and column2 ascending. 7 s 7 ORDER BY column1 DESC, column2 This sorts everything by column1 (descending) first, and then by column2 (ascending, which is the default) whenever the column1 fields for two or more rows are … Read more
I have two tables, movies and categories, and I want to get an ordered list by categoryID first and then by Name. The movie table has three columns ID, Name and CategoryID. The category table has two columns ID and Name. I tried something like the following, but it didn’t work. var movies = _db.Movies.OrderBy( … Read more
