MS SQL Server Interview Question:

Can the Query Output Be Sorted by Multiple Columns in MS SQL Server?

Submitted by: Administrator

You can specifying multiple columns in the ORDER BY clause as shown in the following example statement, which returns rows sorted by "tag" and "counts" values:

SELECT tag, counts, url, created
FROM ggl_links ORDER BY tag, counts
GO
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tab counts url created
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SQA 728 globalguideline.com/sql 2007-05-19
SQA 828 www.winrunner.com 2003-01-01
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Submitted by: Administrator