SQL Order By and Group By is another two important command in MySQL database and other database like: like SQL Server , MS Access , Oracle.
In this tutorial i will discuss about SQL Order By& Group By statement,their purpose , syntax and suitable example.
I hope you will be benefited .
Purpose of SQL Order By:
1. The ORDER BY keyword is used to sort the result-set by a specified column.
2. The ORDER BY keyword is used to sorts the records in ascending or descending order by default.
3. If we want to sort the records in a table in descending order, we have to use the DESC keyword.
4. If we want to sort the records in a table in ascending order, we have to use the ASC keyword.
Syntax of Order by:
SELECT clm_name FROM tbl_name ORDER BY column_name DESC or ASC
SQL Order by ASC Example :
The “teacher info” Table
Here we want to select all the Teacher name from the table teacher info. However , here we will sort FIRST_NAME of all the Teacher by ascending order/ ASC..
We will use the following SELECT statement with Order By:
SELECT * FROM `teacher info2` ORDER BY FIRST_NAME ASC
The output looks Like Below:
ORDER BY DESC Example
Now we want to select all the Teacher Salary from the table teacher info. However , here we will sort SALARY of all the Teacher by descending / DESC.
For this We will use the following SELECT statement:
SELECT * FROM `teacher info2` ORDER BY FIRST_NAME DESC

The Group By Statement is used in conjunction with the aggregate function to Group the all result -set by one or more columns.
Syntax of Group By:
select column _name, aggregate_function(column_name) from table where column_name operator value GROUP BY column_name
Example of GROUP BY:
SELECT FIRST_NAME, MIDDLE_NAME, LAST_NAME, TEACHER_ID FROM `teacher info2` GROUP BY FIRST_NAME
Output of the above statement:
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