How to sort values in columns and update table?

Question

I\'m completely new to sql and can\'t do that myself. So I need your help. I want to sort values in column and then save changes. But I don\'t know how to do that.

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Answer 1

You can use the ROW_NUMBER ranking function to renumber the rows.

SELECT UnsortedId = id
, SortedId = ROW_NUMBER() OVER (ORDER BY g.name, g.id)
FROM games