Order By in MySQL

The ORDER BY keyword is used to sort the data in a recordset.

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The ORDER BY Keyword

The ORDER BY keyword is used to sort the data in a recordset.

The ORDER BY keyword sort the records in ascending order by default.

If you want to sort the records in a descending order, you can use the DESC keyword.

Syntax

SELECT column_name(s) FROM table_name ORDER BY column_name(s) ASC|DESC

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