(USER FOLLOWS THIS ONE)
MEANS WHICH CLAUSE
SELECT
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GROUP BY
HAVING
ORDER BY
ORDER OF EXECUTION (SYSTEM FOLLOWS)
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Display employee records earning more than 2000
select * from emp where sal >2000
Display employee records earning more than 2000 and less than 5000
select * from emp where sal>2000 and sal<5000
Order by Clause
It is used to sort rows retrieved by the “select statement” in Ascending Order or Descending Order.
Syntax
Select */<collist> from <tablename> [where condition] order by <colname> [asc,desc],
<colname> [asc,desc]
Default is ascending order
Display the details of employee in the order of highest salary to the lowest salary
select * from emp order by sal desc
Display the details of employee working in dept 30 in alphabetical order
select * from emp where deptno=30 order by ename
Display the details of employees in order of highest salary to lowest salary and arrange the employee who are drawing same salary.
select * from emp order by sal desc , ename asc
with in order by clause you can specify multiple columns when you specify the columns in order by then first it will arrange the rows in the specified order of first column and then only the rows that have same value in that first column will be arranged in the specified order of the second column.
Sorting the emp table in ename wise
Select * from emp order by ename
Or
select * from emp order by 2
Arrange employee records department wise with in the department salary wise
Select deptno,ename,sal,job from emp order by deptno, sal desc
Display the employee records for 10 or 20 deptno and sort the result salary-wise in descending order
Select * from emp where deptno in(10,20) order by sal desc