From: Martijn Tonies Date: June 16 2004 7:06am Subject: Re: Error 1250 Table from one of the SELECT's cannot be used in global ORDER clause List-Archive: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql/167345 Message-Id: <00f401c45370$685b1a20$0a02a8c0@martijn> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi Dave, > Unfortunately species_id is a column I am using for joining so I need the > fully qualified name both in the SELECT and the ORDER BY. What does the join have to do with the ORDER BY? With regards, Martijn Tonies Database Workbench - developer tool for InterBase, Firebird, MySQL & MS SQL Server. Upscene Productions http://www.upscene.com