Question

I’m doing a HQL query as follows, and try to order the list by count column:

select new Persons(count(*) as cnt, p.id, p.name, p.city) group by p.city order by cnt

How ever Hibernate is giving me following error:

Unknown column 'cnt' in 'order clause'

Is there a way to include the city count to person object and get a list that is also ordered by count, or do I have to do it in some other way?

I’m using MySQL as database backend.

Cheers,

OsQu

Answer 1

Ah, it was something so simple that adding count(*) to order by clause. So working solution:

select new Persons(count(*) as cnt, p.id, p.name, p.city) group by p.city order by count(*);