Contoh dengan ORDER BY

Kembalikan semua 11 baris dari tabel KATEGORI, diurutkan berdasarkan kolom kedua, CATGROUP. Untuk hasil yang memiliki nilai CATGROUP yang sama, urutkan nilai kolom CATDESC dengan panjang string karakter. Kemudian urutkan berdasarkan kolom CATID dan CATNAME.

select * from category order by 2, length(catdesc), 1, 3;

catid | catgroup |  catname  |                  catdesc
------+----------+-----------+----------------------------------------
10    | Concerts | Jazz      | All jazz singers and bands
9     | Concerts | Pop       | All rock and pop music concerts
11    | Concerts | Classical | All symphony, concerto, and choir conce
6     | Shows    | Musicals  | Musical theatre
7     | Shows    | Plays     | All non-musical theatre
8     | Shows    | Opera     | All opera and light opera
5     | Sports   | MLS       | Major League Soccer
1     | Sports   | MLB       | Major League Baseball
2     | Sports   | NHL       | National Hockey League
3     | Sports   | NFL       | National Football League
4     | Sports   | NBA       | National Basketball Association
(11 rows)

Kembalikan kolom yang dipilih dari tabel PENJUALAN, diurutkan berdasarkan nilai QTYSOLD tertinggi. Batasi hasilnya ke 10 baris teratas:

select salesid, qtysold, pricepaid, commission, saletime from sales
order by qtysold, pricepaid, commission, salesid, saletime desc
limit 10;

salesid | qtysold | pricepaid | commission |      saletime
--------+---------+-----------+------------+---------------------
15401   |       8 |    272.00 |      40.80 | 2008-03-18 06:54:56
61683   |       8 |    296.00 |      44.40 | 2008-11-26 04:00:23
90528   |       8 |    328.00 |      49.20 | 2008-06-11 02:38:09
74549   |       8 |    336.00 |      50.40 | 2008-01-19 12:01:21
130232  |       8 |    352.00 |      52.80 | 2008-05-02 05:52:31
55243   |       8 |    384.00 |      57.60 | 2008-07-12 02:19:53
16004   |       8 |    440.00 |      66.00 | 2008-11-04 07:22:31
489     |       8 |    496.00 |      74.40 | 2008-08-03 05:48:55
4197    |       8 |    512.00 |      76.80 | 2008-03-23 11:35:33
16929   |       8 |    568.00 |      85.20 | 2008-12-19 02:59:33
(10 rows)

Kembalikan daftar kolom dan tidak ada baris dengan menggunakan sintaks LIMIT 0:

select * from venue limit 0;
venueid | venuename | venuecity | venuestate | venueseats
---------+-----------+-----------+------------+------------
(0 rows)