Question

When I tried to get amount and date values from a SQL Server database using the query

select Amount, RunDate
  from zComm
 WHERE ID = '1339812'

It is not returning any data. But when I convert date to string it is working query is

select Amount, convert(varchar, RunDate) as RunDate
  from zComm
 WHERE ID = '1339812'

Now I want to show the Amount in the descending order of RunDate and I used the query

select Amount, convert(varchar, RunDate) as RunDate 
  from zComm 
 WHERE ID = '1339812'
 order by RunDate;

But the result I got is not in descending order. I have attached the screenshot of the result query.

Answer 1

Try using the DESC keyword. So your query would become

SELECT Amount, convert(varchar, RunDate) as RunDateChar  
FROM zComm  
WHERE ID = N'1339812'
ORDER BY RunDate DESC;

It is likely it is ordering by the CHAR representation and not the date.

I hope this helps.