Re: Problems with "ORDER BY" from C API (works from command-line tool mysql.exe)

[Paul DuBois]

At 11:56 +0100 11/4/02, Joseph Bueno wrote:
>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


How will that be different than "ORDER BY 2", which sorts using the
second column?  Your alternate query does the same thing.

>
>Hope this helps
>--
>Joseph Bueno