Question

Table structure:

country
season
points

Current query:

SELECT SUM(points) AS total, country 
FROM table 
WHERE season >= X 
GROUP BY country 
ORDER BY total desc

This gives me a nice list ordered by a total points collected by a given country. BUT, if a country is tied with another country, I want to sort by their points in the latest season given, is that possible within the same query? And if so, how? (Remember its grouped at the moment)

example of rows
denmark (country), 1 (season), 10 (points)
denmark (country), 2 (season), 5 (points)
sweden(country), 1 (season), 5 (points)
sweden (country), 2 (season), 10 (points)

Answer 1

Maybe this’ll do your trick:

SELECT SUM(points) AS total, country 
FROM table 
WHERE season >= X 
GROUP BY country 
ORDER BY total DESC, (SELECT t2.points FROM table t2 WHERE table.country=t2.country ORDER BY t2.season LIMIT 1) DESC