MS-Access -> SELECT AS + ORDER BY = error

Question

I\'m trying to make a query to retrieve the region which got the most sales for sweet products. \'grupo_produto\' is the product type, and \'regiao\' is the region. So I got

Answer 1

Old Question I know, but it may help someone knowing than while you cant order by aliases, you can order by column index. For example, this will work without error :

SELECT 
 firstColumn,
 IIF(secondColumn = '', thirdColumn, secondColumn) As yourAlias
FROM
 yourTable
ORDER BY
 2 ASC

The results would then be ordered by the values found in the second column wich is the Alias "yourAlias".