Question

I have a question that seems to be ‘simple’ solution .. but is still pounding me on the head here, I have a table with the rows

columns: x, y   
1 , 3 
3 , 8 
1 , 2 
3 , 7 

then, sometimes, the ordering will be right, knowing that ‘all the results in column X’ are different, just that .. it is the same, I want to use the column Y as sort criteria, it is possible?

Answer 1

Why not just do:

SELECT x, y
FROM table
ORDER BY x, y;

That sorts by x first, using y as the tie-breaker.