How to ORDER BY a SUM() in MySQL?

Question

I have a table: \"ID name c_counts f_counts \"

and I want to order all the record by sum(c_counts+f_counts) but this doesn\'t work:

SELECT

Answer 1

The problem I see here is that "sum" is an aggregate function.

first, you need to fix the query itself.

Select sum(c_counts + f_counts) total, [column to group sums by]
from table
group by [column to group sums by]

then, you can sort it:

Select *
from (query above) a
order by total

EDIT: But see post by Virat. Perhaps what you want is not the sum of your total fields over a group, but just the sum of those fields for each record. In that case, Virat has the right solution.