Question

At the moment I’m building a market info query. here’s my query:

SELECT 
    `data`.s AS Simbol,
    format( ( (`data`.c - `data`.p) / `data`.p ), 3 ) AS pctChange, 
    lu
FROM 
    jos_marketinfo AS `data`
WHERE 
    `data`.s LIKE '%.%' 
ORDER BY pctChange ASC 
LIMIT 10

As you see, I’m calculating percentage change in the query and I would like to reorder it.
The problem arise that the order is false, I see big negative pctChange value in middle and vice verse.

Am I missing anything?

Answer 1

You should order by without format to avoid alphabetic order and get numeric order:

ORDER BY (data.c-data.p)/data.p