Comments on: SQL Server NULL values and "Order By" order

By: Reydmon

Reydmon — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 00:32:29 +0000

@bp said

And.. what happens when the column is not numeric??
or when is a result of a subquery

the Jason’s solution works!!! in any case

Anthony Mills — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 19:40:45 +0000

Excellent idea bp!

SELECT rank
FROM table
ORDER BY -rank DESC

Yeah, if you order by negative rank descending, you get the normal sort but with nulls at the end.

bp — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 22:06:45 +0000

How about..

SELECT rank
FROM blah
ORDER by rank * -1

Cory — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 18:39:52 +0000

@Muhammad Atif Riaz:

Correction: SELECT rank
FROM blah
ORDER by rank desc

will give you following results

Rank
—-
3
2
1
null
null
null

Clearly there’s a need for this “complex solution” and it works as intended.

Thanks Jason (and Tim)!

Muhammad Atif Riaz — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 11:41:37 +0000

SELECT rank
FROM blah
ORDER by rank

will give you following results

Rank
—-
null
null
null
1
2
3

and

SELECT rank
FROM blah
ORDER by rank desc

will give you following results

Rank
—-
1
2
3
null
null
null

why bother such complex solution

V_OMAR — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 16:55:22 +0000

Gracias por tu aporte me ayudo mucho

Gints — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 13:25:54 +0000

SQL standard has NULLS FIRST / NULLS LAST syntax for that. Hopefully next version of SQL Server will implement that

Tue, 14 Oct 2008 16:43:23 +0000

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Ska — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 15:43:47 +0000

Thanks a lot for this Jason.