Re: Order By Date Question

In response to BlackMage <dsd7872@uncw.edu>:

>
> I have a question about ordering by date. I have a table with two fields and
> some date
>
> Name(character varying)  |  Event_Date(timestamp with timezone)
> A                                  |    2009-09-10 5:30:00
> B                                  |    2009-09-10- 00:00:00
> C                                  |    2009-09-11 17:30:00
> D                                  |  2009-09-11  07:30:00
>
>
> I want to order by date and then by name, so I want the result A,B,C,D. The
> problem is when I do a 'SELECT * FROM table_name ORDER BY Event_Date, DESC',
> it includes the actual time (HH:MM:SS) so the order comes out B,A,D,C.
>
> So what I am asking is how do I order only by the date? YYYY-MM-DD?

You could do "ORDER BY event_date::DATE"

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