Question

I’m using MySQL, and I want to sort a record or I want to group a record then sort it again by another condition like for example I have 6 items,

Names Group
Jack  G1
Dian  G2
Emily G2
Dean  G1
Teddy G2
Gabe  G1

So I want to sort this by group in alphabetized orby by name. Like,

Dean  G1
Gabe  G1
Jack  G1
Dian  G2
Emily G2
Teddy G2

So my problem is, how can I sort like this in MySQL?

Thanks.

Answer 1

So you want to order by one column first and then another? You can specify more than one column in the ORDER BY clause of a query – separate them by commas, and the first one will be the ‘major’ sort, then subsequent columns in the list will be sorted within that.