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Sorting with ORDER BY

1.3 - Sorting with ORDER BY

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Practice Questions

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Question 1 Easy

What does ORDER BY price ASC do?

💡 Hint: Think about how you would organize prices in a list.

Question 2 Easy

Write an SQL query to select all products sorted alphabetically by name.

💡 Hint: Sort using the product name.

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Question 1

What does the SQL command ORDER BY do?

Sorts data
Filters data
Joins tables

💡 Hint: Consider what we do to organize lists.

Question 2

True or False: The ASC keyword sorts data in descending order.

True
False

💡 Hint: Think about what 'ascending' means.

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Challenge 1 Hard

Write a SQL query that sorts a list of employees first by department alphabetically and then by their hire date in descending order.

💡 Hint: Consider the order in which you want to arrange employees in a report.

Challenge 2 Hard

Formulate a query that selects all products including their sales amount and sorts them by sales amount descending, but only for the available status.

💡 Hint: Combine filtering with your sorting for clarity.

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