Question

I have created a simple view consisting of 3 tables in SQL.

By right clicking and selecting Design, in the Object explorer table, i modified my custom view. I just added sortby asc in a field.

The problem is that the changes are not reflected in the outout of the View.
After saving the view, and selecting Open view the sort is not displayed in output.

So what is going on here?

Answer 1

Technically, it is possible to bake sorting into a VIEW but it is highly discouraged. Instead, you should apply sort while selecting from the view like so:

Select ...
From MyView
Order By SortByCol ASC

If you really wanted to know (but again, I would strongly recommend against this), you can use the TOP command to get around the limitation of sorting in the view:

Select TOP 100 PERCENT * Col1, Col2....
From Table1
Order By SortByCol ASC