Question

I want to reverse the order in SQL Server of results after using desc. For example:

SELECT TOP 3 * FROM table ORDER BY id DESC

returns results:

505
504
503

But then I want to flip the results to look like this:

503
504
505

I tried

SELECT * FROM (SELECT TOP 3 * FROM table ORDER BY id DESC) ORDER BY id ASC

But that did not work. How can I fix it?

Answer 1

That should work as long as you alias the subquery.

SELECT q.* 
    FROM (SELECT TOP 3 * 
              FROM table 
              ORDER BY id DESC) q
    ORDER BY q.id ASC