Question

I’ve looked on Google but couldn’t find it. Can we order in MySQL using field’s position ?

Let’s say I got fields ID | FirstName | LastName | Age but I want to order by field 4, could I do something like ORDER BY FieldPos4 to order on Age ? I have not manage to find something about that.

Thanks.

Answer 1

You can refer to the columns by position (1-based):

ORDER BY 4

From the documentation (emphasis mine):

Columns selected for output can be referred to in ORDER BY and GROUP
BY clauses using column names, column aliases, or column positions.
Column positions are integers and begin with 1