Title: Sorting
Slug: sorting
Summary: Sorting in SQL.
Date: 2017-01-16 12:00
Category: SQL
Tags: Basics
Authors: Chris Albon
Note: This tutorial was written using Catherine Devlin's SQL in Jupyter Notebooks library. If you have not using a Jupyter Notebook, you can ignore the two lines of code below and any line containing %%sql. Furthermore, this tutorial uses SQLite's flavor of SQL, your version might have some differences in syntax.
For more, check out Learning SQL by Alan Beaulieu.
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# Ignore
%load_ext sql
%sql sqlite://
%config SqlMagic.feedback = False
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%%sql
-- Create a table of criminals
CREATE TABLE criminals (pid, name, age, sex, city, minor);
INSERT INTO criminals VALUES (412, 'James Smith', 15, 'M', 'Santa Rosa', 1);
INSERT INTO criminals VALUES (234, 'Bill James', 22, 'M', 'Santa Rosa', 0);
INSERT INTO criminals VALUES (632, 'Stacy Miller', 23, 'F', 'San Francisco', 0);
INSERT INTO criminals VALUES (901, 'Gordon Ado', 32, 'F', 'San Francisco', 0);
INSERT INTO criminals VALUES (512, 'Bill Byson', 21, 'M', 'Petaluma', 0);
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%%sql
-- Select all
SELECT *
-- From the criminals table
FROM criminals
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%%sql
-- Select all unique
SELECT distinct *
-- From the criminals table
FROM criminals
-- Sort by ascending age
ORDER BY age ASC
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%%sql
-- Select all unique
SELECT distinct *
-- From the criminals table
FROM criminals
-- Sort by descending age
ORDER BY age DESC
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%%sql
-- Select all unique
SELECT distinct *
-- From the criminals table
FROM criminals
-- Sort by name
ORDER BY name
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