Question

I have a table mytable

id | name| location
---|-----|----------
1  | fff |  www
2  | bbb |  xxx
3  | aaa |  www
4  | eee |  xxx
5  | ddd |  yyy
6  | ccc |  xxx

How do I select it such that I get the names arranged in ascending order separated by their location ?

I am expecting output to be :

 name| location
-----|----------
 aaa |  www
 fff |  www
 bbb |  xxx
 ccc |  xxx
 eee |  xxx
 ddd |  yyy

The sql :

SELECT name, location
FROM mytable
GROUP BY location
ORDER BY location, name ASC

gives :

 name| location
-----|----------
 bbb |  xxx
 ddd |  yyy
 fff |  www

Answer 1

In this case you don’t need to use GROUP BY , only:

   SELECT name, location
     FROM mytable
 ORDER BY location asc, name asc

It will give you your expected results