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Asked: 2026-06-18T10:26:10+00:00

im trying to figure out how to write a sql query for this: I

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im trying to figure out how to write a sql query for this:

I have a database which contains a column X. X has datetime values if set by a function otherwise it has a default value which looks something like this 0001-01-01.00.00.00.000000

What I am interested in doing is writing sql that will retrieve all the rows of X sorted by latest datetime values.

I thought this would be the answer 

 Select * from Some_Table st where st.Dbname = "blah" order_by st.x desc

but then I was thinking what happens to the default values? how do they affect the sorting

Any ideas if this is the way to go?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Ordering by date desc will work fine. Why not make the column nullable so you don’t need a default? Also it sounds like you only want the latest single record so you may want to consider using SELECT TOP 1 * FROM blah ORDER BY date DESC

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