From: Scott McClintock
Date: August 10 2005 2:53am
Subject: Re: [SPAM] Re: Sort by count
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Arjen Lentz wrote:
> Hi Scott, Mark,
> 
> On Wed, 2005-08-10 at 10:26, Scott McClintock wrote:
> 
>>Two simple solutions:
>>
>>a)
>>SELECT count(software_name) software_count, software_name.....
>>order by software_count
>>
>>b)
>>
>>.... order by 1 .....
> 
> 
> That's evil. I believe the SQL standards committee is considering
> ripping that out.
> 

I know :)  Which is why its option b!  But that aside, sometimes the 
evil solution is the best solution... regardless of what the purists 
say! (but not in this case ;)

regards

Scott
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