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Asked: 2026-05-24T03:14:14+00:00

I have a database that I want to sort but I dont really understand

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I have a database that I want to sort but I dont really understand how to use the ORDER BY field when I query. the only thing I have done with it is sort a column using ASC or DEC but beyond that I dont know how to use is.

what I want to do is when I query the database I want to sort it by a column that holds a number in milliseconds from the one that is the closest to the current time ie. system.currentTimeMills() - timeInDb to the one that is the furthest away.

anyone want to point me in the right direction?

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  1. Editorial Team

    The ORDER BY keyword is used to sort the result-set by a specified column.

    The ORDER BY keyword sort the records in ascending order by default.

    If you want to sort the records in a descending order, you can use the DESC keyword.

    For eg:

    SELECT * FROM timeRecordTable
ORDER BY timeInDb DESC

    will order rows by descending order, which is what you seem to want.

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