Question

I would like to double sort my user list. Is this possible within one MySQL query?

1. Sort by activity
2. Sort by ID

For example:

1  Jack   Active 
2  Jill   Active 
5  Jens   Active  
3  Harry  Inactive 
4  Larry  Inactive 
6  Luke   Inactive

Answer 1

You can use the ORDER BY clause to sort as many columns as needed.

SELECT id, name, activity
FROM userList
ORDER BY Activity, ID

I would suggest reading the MySQL ORDER BY docs. You can sort the data either in ASC or DESC order: MySQL: ORDER BY Optimization