How To Sort Output in Descending Order

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How To Sort Output in Descending Order? - MySQL FAQs - SQL SELECT Query Statements with GROUP BY

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If you want to sort a column in descending order, you can specify the DESC keyword in the ORDER BY clause. The following SELECT statement first sorts the "tag" in descending order, then sorts the "counts" in ascending order:

mysql> SELECT tag, counts, url, DATE(created) 
   FROM fyi_links ORDER BY tag DESC, counts;
+------+--------+-------------------+---------------+
| tag  | counts | url               | DATE(created) |
+------+--------+-------------------+---------------+
| SQA  |      6 | sqa.fyicenter.com | 2006-07-01    |
| SQA  |      8 | www.winrunner.com | 2003-01-01    |
| DEV  |      4 | dev.fyicenter.com | 2006-04-30    |
| DEV  |      4 | www.php.net       | 2004-01-01    |
| DBA  |      1 | www.mysql.com     | 2006-01-01    |
| DBA  |      3 | dba.fyicenter.com | 2006-07-01    |
| DBA  |      7 | www.oracle.com    | 2005-01-01    |
+------+--------+-------------------+---------------+
7 rows in set (0.01 sec)

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