ORDER BY

SELECT with an ascending ORDER BY

In this exercise we sort employees by first_name in ascending order.

SELECT first_name,
       last_name,
       title,
       address,
       city
FROM employees
ORDER BY first_name ASC;
Run in terminal

The query should return 9 rows.

SELECT with an descending ORDER BY

In this exercise we sort employees by first_name in descending order.

SELECT first_name,
       last_name,
       title,
       address,
       city
FROM employees
ORDER BY first_name DESC;
Run in terminal

The query should return 9 rows.

SELECT with a ascending and descending ORDER BYs

In this exercise we sort employees by first_name in ascending order and then by last name in descending order.

SELECT first_name,
       last_name
FROM employees
ORDER BY first_name ASC,
         last_name DESC;
Run in terminal

The query should return 9 rows