Just use a numeric reference to the column's position in your order by. In
your example, if you want to order by the highest total points, just say:
ORDER BY 2
because SUM(AdjPoints) is the second column.
Bob
-----Original Message-----
From: Jay Patton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: February 7, 2001 2:00 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: ORDER BY?
im having trouble getting this query to order the results the way that i
want it to...
OR am i going about this the wrong way? i want it to total the points for
each contestant
and then output them in a page listed first through whatever it outputs them
fine w/o the order by
but it orders them by ContestantID, i need it go order by the amount of
total points that the query
comes up with. it should be:
contestant 2 500
contestant 3 485
contestant 1 355
ect....
but instead its
contestant 1 355
contestant 2 500
contestant 3 485
ect..
can anyone help me with this?
here is my query:
<!---
<cfquery name="GetTotalPts"
datasource="?????"
dbtype="ODBC">
SELECT ContestantID, SUM (AdjPoints) as TOTALPTS, SUM (MoneyEarned) as
TOTALMONEY
FROM ResultsManager
GROUP BY ContestantID
ORDER BY ??????? <--- CANT FIGURE OUT WHAT TO PUT HERE IVE TRIED TOTALPTS
but it says its not a valid field in the table... so im at a loss now.
</cfquery>
-->
Thanks,
Jay Patton
Web Pro USA
406.549.3337 ext. 203
1.888.5WEBPRO
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