thanks guys - that worked great. >Yes, you must specify the direction on each column. > >...ORDER BY status DESC, date_added DESC... > >M!ke > >-----Original Message----- >From: daniel kessler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Friday, June 17, 2005 9:50 AM >To: CF-Talk >Subject: query sort assistance > >I have a query that grabs the status (approved, denied, pending) and the >date added. I want to sort by status and then by date added, both >descending. It currently does one or the other. Here's my latest try >which I thought would work. I guess I need to designate desc on each >field, somehow. > ><CFQUERY NAME="getSelect" DATASOURCE="dpch"> > select polexc_id,exception,fname,mname,lname,date_added,status > from policy_exceptions > where archived <> 1 > order by status,date_added desc ></CFQUERY> > >thanks!
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