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Asked: May 11, 20262026-05-11T14:13:13+00:00 2026-05-11T14:13:13+00:00

I want to to make to make the ordering in my query conditional so

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I want to to make to make the ordering in my query conditional so if it satisfiess the condition it should be ordered by descending

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SELECT * FROM Data ORDER BY SortOrder CASE WHEN @Direction = 1 THEN DESC END 
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  1. 2026-05-11T14:13:13+00:00Added an answer on May 11, 2026 at 2:13 pm

    Don’t change the ASC or DESC, change the sign of the thing being sorted-by:

    SELECT * FROM table  ORDER BY  CASE WHEN @Direction = 1 THEN -id else id END asc; 

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    Guys, I am not the SQL Expert, please explain me what means the id and -id, does it controls the ordering direction?

    id is just whatever column you’re sorting by; -id is just the negation of that, id * -1. If you’re sorting by more than one column, you’ll need to negate each column:

    SELECT * FROM table  ORDER BY  CASE WHEN @Direction = 1 THEN -id else id END  CASE WHEN @Direction = 1 THEN -othercolumn else othercolumn END ; 

    If you’re ordering by a non numeric column, you’ll need to find an expression that makes that column ‘negative’; writing a function to do that may help.

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