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Re: [SQL] desc and asc

Herouth Maoz <herouth@oumail.openu.ac.il>

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From: Herouth Maoz <herouth@oumail.openu.ac.il>
To: coronach@datacruz.com (Mike Lemler), pgsql-sql@postgreSQL.org
Date: 1998-06-03T17:36:34Z
Lists: pgsql-sql 
At 20:08 +0300 on 3/6/98, Mike Lemler wrote:


> The nifty little booklet I have that tells the the ANSI SQL92 standard for
> desc and asc seems not to work with order by.  Could some one post
> an example?

Sure:

testing=> SELECT engterm FROM glossary
testing-> WHERE dict=1 AND engterm IS NOT NULL
testing-> ORDER BY engterm ASC;
engterm
-------
Mafia
Stereo
change
geek
green
plasma
stam
(7 rows)

testing=> SELECT engterm FROM glossary
testing-> WHERE dict=1 AND engterm IS NOT NULL
testing-> ORDER BY engterm DESC;
engterm
-------
stam
plasma
green
geek
change
Stereo
Mafia
(7 rows)

Herouth

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