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Asked: 2026-05-15T02:49:15+00:00

I want to order results based on two columns, mod_time and create_time. I want

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I want to order results based on two columns, mod_time and create_time.

I want the most recent to be present. At the moment I have

ORDER BY pr.mod_time DESC, pr.create_time DESC

This breaks if the item has not modified, in which case mod_time is 0 and only the create_time is set. This effectively puts anything with a mod_time of 0 to the end of the ordering even if the create_time is greater than any other mod_time.

I hope that makes sense.

Is there a way I can use ORDER BY to do this?

Thanks, Jake

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  1. Editorial Team

    I’m not sure if this is what you mean, but I’ll offer it in case:

    Just switch your ORDER BY around:

    ORDER BY pr.create_time DESC, pr.mod_time DESC

    This will cause it to sort by create_time first.

    A side note: You could set mod_time at create time, such that a created item was ‘modified’ (created) at the same time as create_time. This probably depends on what else is going on in your system though.

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