ORDER BY

The ORDER BY clause orders the results. The default order is ascending, meaning that the ASC keyword can be omitted. To produce the result set in descending order, DESC must be set explicitly. Building on the same example from the WHERE section, the following code block is used to explicitly present results in descending order of product name and location name:

SELECT P.Name AS ProductName, [PI].Quantity, L.Name AS LocationName
FROM Production.Product AS P
INNER JOIN Production.ProductInventory AS [PI] ON P.ProductID = [PI].ProductID
INNER JOIN Production.Location AS L ON [PI].LocationID = L.LocationID
WHERE P.Name LIKE 'Touring%'
ORDER BY P.Name DESC, L.Name DESC;

The following screenshot shows the results in the specified order: