sql-order-by

I want use OFFSET and Fetch in my SQL server 2012 query.But without any order by.I can not use order by.Because my sort order will be lost. How can I use OFFSET and Fetch without order by and row number and where in my query? My 2 select tables have same structure. INSERT INTO @TempTable [some columns] select [some columns] from table1 order by col1 INSERT INTO @TempTable [same columns] select [some columns] from table2 order by col2 select * from @TempTable OFFSET 20 ROWS FETCH NEXT 50 ROWS ONLY This query has syntax error at OFFSET keyword. By adding an identity column to the temp table

How can I sort a table with a column of varchar2 with characters in varying cases ( UPPER and lower )? For example, when I do an order by of the Name column, I get the following results: ANNIE BOB Daniel annie bob What I want is something like this: ANNIE annie BOB bob Daniel Use lower(field) , e.g. select * from tbl order by lower(name) If you need to address special characters for non-english languages then the other answers about NLSSORT may be what you need. If you don't I would try and KISS and use lower() as it is very easy to remember and use and be read by others (maintainability).

I have the following models: Product: name, shop_id (foreign key), brand_id (foreign key), price Shop: name Brand: name The associations are: Product: belongs_to :shop belongs_to :brand Shop: has_many :products has_many :brands, :through => :products Brand: has_many :products has_many :shops, :through => :products In ProductsController#list I would like to get a list of all products sorted by shop name and then by brand name. I tried to do: @products = Product.order("products.shop.name ASC, products.brand.name ASC") But it doesn't work (I guess because products.shop.name does not exist at the

I'm using Laravel and MySQL, and I have a table post that represents post where users can comment on it, now I wanna order posts by the number of comments of each post in ascending/descending order, how do I do this in Laravel? I don't want to add a field in post table to keep track of the number of comments of each post, because updating that field manually each time a comment or a comment's comment is added/deleted drives me crazy... This is how I create my posts table and comments table: Schema::create('posts', function($table) { $table->increments('id'); $table->string('title', 100)-

Some SQL servers allow for a generic statement such as ORDER BY PRIMARY KEY . I don't believe this works for MySQL, is there any such workaround that would allow for automated selects across multiple tables or does it require a lookup query to determine the primary key? The workaround I have been working on involves calling a SHOW COLUMNS FROM before running the query. Is there a more efficient way of doing this? Can MySQL determine the primary key of a table during the select process? Update: There is no official way of doing this in MySQL or SQL in general as Gordon pointed out. SAP has