From: Joseph Bueno Date: November 4 2002 10:56am Subject: Re: Problems with "ORDER BY" from C API (works from command-line tool mysql.exe) List-Archive: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql/123914 Message-Id: <3DC65268.5060808@trader.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Christer Holmström (at Home) wrote: > Hi! > > This SQL works perfect when running the command line tool mysql.exe > > SELECT exe, sum(duration) FROM data GROUP BY exe ORDER BY 2 > > BUT when running from the C API, the "ORDER BY" part doesn't seem > active, why? > > Please help. > > /Christer > > Hi, What do expect with "ORDER BY 2" ? If you want to arder by "sum(duration)" you should use: SELECT exe, sum(duration) AS s FROM data GROUP BY exe ORDER BY s Hope this helps -- Joseph Bueno