Re: [GENERAL] sorting by date & time in descending order ??

Hi Ralph,

Did you try:

select surname, creationdate, creationtime from message order by
creationdate desc, creationtime desc;

??

It appears that all of your other queries are working as expected.

Bob

Ralf Weidemann wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I want to sort my output by date & time in descending
> order. How can I do this ? Date or time alone is not
> enough and the combination of both does not work. At
> least in the way I tried it..
>
> Thanks,
> Ralf
>
> wdb=> select surname, creationdate, creationtime
>        from message order by creationtime desc;
> surname             |creationdate|creationtime
> --------------------+------------+------------
> Name_1              |  30.03.1999|14:46:17
> Name_2              |  30.03.1999|14:05:47
> Name_2              |  30.03.1999|10:10:04
> Name_2              |  29.03.1999|09:10:04
> Name_2              |  30.03.1999|09:10:04
> Name_3              |  22.03.1999|06:02:55
> (6 rows)
>
> wdb=> select surname, creationdate, creationtime
>        from message order by creationdate desc;
> surname             |creationdate|creationtime
> --------------------+------------+------------
> Name_2              |  30.03.1999|14:05:47
> Name_2              |  30.03.1999|10:10:04
> Name_1              |  30.03.1999|14:46:17
> Name_2              |  30.03.1999|09:10:04
> Name_2              |  29.03.1999|09:10:04
> Name_3              |  22.03.1999|06:02:55
> (6 rows)
>
> wdb=> select surname, creationdate, creationtime
>        from message order by creationdate, creationtime desc;
> surname             |creationdate|creationtime
> --------------------+------------+------------
> Name_3              |  22.03.1999|06:02:55
> Name_2              |  29.03.1999|09:10:04
> Name_1              |  30.03.1999|14:46:17
> Name_2              |  30.03.1999|14:05:47
> Name_2              |  30.03.1999|10:10:04
> Name_2              |  30.03.1999|09:10:04
> (6 rows)
>
> CREATE TABLE  Message
> (
>         MessageID                       SMALLINT        NOT NULL,
>     Title                               CHAR(20)        NOT NULL,
>     Surname                             CHAR(50)        NOT NULL,
>         EMail                           CHAR(100),
>         MessageURL                      CHAR(100),
>         Text                            VARCHAR         NOT NULL,
>         CreationDate            DATE            NOT NULL,
>         CreationTime            TIME            NOT NULL,
>     Expiry                              SMALLINT        NOT NULL
> );