Mysql Date Order
Mysql Date Order is used to sort the records from a table in ascending order or descending order.
Understand with Example
The Tutorial illustrate an example from 'Date Order in Mysql'. To understand this example, we create a table employee1 with field attribute and data type. The create table is used to create a table 'employee1'.
Query to create table:-
CREATE TABLE employee1( Empid int(10),Empname varchar(60),date date ); |
Output:-
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Query to insert data:-
The insert into add the records or rows value to the table 'employee1'.
mysql> insert into
employee1(Empid,Empname,date)values('01','Girish','2008-12-20'); Query OK, 1 row affected (0.02 sec) mysql> insert into employee1(Empid,Empname,date)values('02','Komal','2008-12-21'); Query OK, 1 row affected (0.02 sec) mysql> insert into employee1(Empid,Empname,date)values('03','vineet','2008-12-21'); Query OK, 1 row affected (0.03 sec) mysql> insert into employee1(Empid,Empname,date)values('04','Amit','2008-12-20'); Query OK, 1 row affected (0.02 sec) |
Query to view data from the table created:-
mysql> select * from employee1; |
Output:-
+-------+---------+------------+ | Empid | Empname | date | +-------+---------+------------+ | 1 | Girish | 2008-12-20 | | 2 | Komal | 2008-12-21 | | 3 | vineet | 2008-12-21 | | 4 | Amit | 2008-12-20 | | 2 | Komal | 2008-12-23 | | 2 | Sandeep | 2008-12-24 | | 2 | suman | 2008-12-25 | +-------+---------+------------+ 7 rows in set (0.00 sec) |
Query for viewing the date field in ascending order using order by:-
The given below syntax return you the sorted records from a table employee1 on the basis of ascending order.
mysql> select * from employee1 order by date asc; |
Output:-
+-------+---------+------------+ | Empid | Empname | date | +-------+---------+------------+ | 1 | Girish | 2008-12-20 | | 4 | Amit | 2008-12-20 | | 2 | Komal | 2008-12-21 | | 3 | vineet | 2008-12-21 | | 2 | Komal | 2008-12-23 | | 2 | Sandeep | 2008-12-24 | | 2 | suman | 2008-12-25 | +-------+---------+------------+ 7 rows in set (0.01 sec) |
Query for viewing the date field in descending order using order by:-
The below Query return you the sorted records from a table by the descending order of field name date.
mysql> select * from employee1 order by date desc; |
Output:-
+-------+---------+------------+ | Empid | Empname | date | +-------+---------+------------+ | 2 | suman | 2008-12-25 | | 2 | Sandeep | 2008-12-24 | | 2 | Komal | 2008-12-23 | | 2 | Komal | 2008-12-21 | | 3 | vineet | 2008-12-21 | | 1 | Girish | 2008-12-20 | | 4 | Amit | 2008-12-20 | +-------+---------+------------+ 7 rows in set (0.16 sec) |