A clause used in SQL SELECT statements to sort query results.

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Parent-Child Tree Hierarchical ORDER

I have to following data in SQL Server 2008 R2. SQLFiddle Schema: CREATE TABLE [dbo].[ICFilters]( [ICFilterID] [int] IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL, [ParentID] [int] NOT NULL DEFAULT 0, ...
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MySql Order by isnull() Performance Problem

my sql below is use for listing stock added from 10 days ago. Order by isnull(Price) is use so that stock without any price yet will still being listed. AddDate and Price has an index. SELECT Id, ...
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ORDER BY optimization issue

I have a query: SELECT user_details.id , user_details.first_name , user_details.last_name, user_accounts.name account_name, jtl0.account_id account_id, user_details.title , ...
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Why is MySQL order by performance poor within a single partition of a partitioned table?

I have to store some sequence numbered data in MySQL. I have about 300,000 data items per day for about a 10 year span. Let's say the table structure is just sequence number (a big int) and data (a ...
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MySQL poor order by performance on partitioned table [duplicate]

I have to store some sequence numbered data in MySQL. I have about 300,000 data items per day for about a 10 year span. Let's say the table structure is just sequence number (a big int) and data (a ...
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Index on a query with order

I have the following table with >1M rows: CREATE TABLE `wishlist_place` ( `id` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT, `wishlist_id` int(11) DEFAULT NULL, `place_id` int(11) DEFAULT NULL, `city_id` ...
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Optimizing ORDER BY for simple MySQL query

I'm trying to optimize this really simple query, and it gives me grief for a day now :( Seems pretty straightforward, I need to select with a JOIN from 2 tables, and get top X results sorted in a ...
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Order by on an alphanumerical column

I have a column that has strings of the following type: Miller 10 Allen 20 King 10 .... Jones 100 I try to sort the column based on the numerical part of the data. I tried the following: SELECT ...
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Mysql: order by field or select union?

As a newbie, I expected Mysql to return the rows of this query ordered by their ids order in the id clause select * from test where id in (3,1,2) Unfortunatelly for me, that's not true. The results ...
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Update one table from another table while sorting that table based on one column

This is the problem I'm trying to figure out in MySQL. We have an old table contains some forms submitted by our users. Somehow, the previous decision was each time a user comes to this survey, a new ...
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Should all queries where you expect a specific order, include an ORDER BY clause?

In order to better understand the SQL Server query processor, I've been thinking about how the ORDER BY clause works, and how SQL Server provides results. It appears SQL Server will provide results ...
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Arbitrarily ordering records in a table

A common need when using a database is to access records in order. For example, if I have a blog, I want to be able to reorder my blog posts in arbitrary order. These entries often have lots of ...
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Sequential joining of tables in order

Table albums has (among other field) field id. Table photos has column id, field album which is a foreign key referring to album id and some other fields (which are irrelevant for the question I ...
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Special ordering

I have a hierarchical query but I don't manage to order it as I want. I have a column named sequence that indicates how to order it but the data is kinda mixed up and I cant do it properly. This a ...
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db INDEX on ORDER BY FIELD in very simple query does not help - still slow response?

I have very simple query which returns 200K records very slow (20 seconds). SELECT * FROM TABLE ORDER BY ID DESC If I do just SELECT * FROM TABLE it returns quick result. I created INDEX on ...

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