MS SQL Server Interview Question:

How To Sort the Query Output with ORDER BY Clauses in MS SQL Server?

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If you want the returning rows to be sorted, you can specify a sorting expression in the ORDER BY clause. The simplest sort expression is column name who's values will be sorted by. The following select statement returns rows sorted by the values in the "counts" column:

SELECT * FROM ggl_links ORDER BY counts
GO
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id url notes counts created tag
101 globalguideline.com NULL 120 2006-04-30 DEV
104 www.mysql.com 390 2006-01-01 DBA
106 www.php.net 439 2004-01-01 DEV
103 globalguideline.com/html NULL 728 2007-05-19 SQA
107 www.winrunner.com 828 2003-01-01 SQA
105 www.oracle.com 960 2005-01-01 DBA
102 globalguideline.com/sql NULL 972 2007-05-19 DBA
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The output is sorted by the values of the "counts" column.
Submitted by: Administrator