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Can the Query Output Be Sorted by Multiple Columns

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Can the Query Output Be Sorted by Multiple Columns? - MySQL FAQs - SQL SELECT Query Statements with GROUP BY

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You can specifying multiple columns in the ORDER BY clause as shown in the following example statement, which returns employees' salaries sorted by department and salary value:

mysql> SELECT tag, counts, url, DATE(created) 
   FROM fyi_links ORDER BY tag, counts;
+------+--------+-------------------+---------------+
| tag  | counts | url               | DATE(created) |
+------+--------+-------------------+---------------+
| DBA  |      1 | www.mysql.com     | 2006-01-01    |
| DBA  |      3 | dba.fyicenter.com | 2006-07-01    |
| DBA  |      7 | www.oracle.com    | 2005-01-01    |
| DEV  |      4 | dev.fyicenter.com | 2006-04-30    |
| DEV  |      4 | www.php.net       | 2004-01-01    |
| SQA  |      6 | sqa.fyicenter.com | 2006-07-01    |
| SQA  |      8 | www.winrunner.com | 2003-01-01    |
+------+--------+-------------------+---------------+
7 rows in set (0.00 sec)

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