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Can the Query Output Be Sorted by Multiple Columns in MS SQL Server?
Answer:
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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</pre>
SELECT tag, counts, url, created
FROM ggl_links ORDER BY tag, counts
GO
<pre>
tab counts url created
DBA 390 www.mysql.com 2006-01-01
DBA 960 www.oracle.com 2005-01-01
DBA 972 globalguideline.com 2007-05-19
DEV 120 globalguideline.com/xml 2006-04-30
DEV 439 www.php.net 2004-01-01
SQA 728 globalguideline.com/sql 2007-05-19
SQA 828 www.winrunner.com 2003-01-01
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