What's the execute order of the different parts of a SQL select statement?

Question

What\'s the execute order of the different parts of a SQL select statement? Such as
distinct
from
order by
group by
having
multiline function(count,

Answer 1

The above answer addresses the question but there is one exception to the above mentioned order

when you have

select top n ............

order by

Then, order by will be executed before select. ( the entries are ordered first and then the top n entries are selected)