SQL multiple column ordering

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I am trying to sort by multiple columns in SQL  and in different directions  column1 would be sorted descending  and column2 ascending   How can I do this

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ORDER BY column1 DESC  column2   This sorts everything by column1  descending  first  and then by column2  ascending  which is the default  whenever the column1 fields for two or more rows are equal

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SELECT    FROM    mytable ORDER BY         column1 DESC  column2 ASC

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You can use multiple ordering on multiple condition   ORDER BY        CASE          WHEN  AlphabetBy   2  THEN  Drug Name        END  ASC      CASE          WHEN  TopBy   1  THEN  Rx Count          WHEN  TopBy   2  THEN  Cost          WHEN  TopBy   3  THEN  Revenue      END DESC

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Multiple column ordering depends on both column s corresponding values  Here is my table example where are two columns named with Alphabets and Numbers and the values in these two columns are asc and desc orders     Now I perform Order By in these two columns by executing below command     Now again I insert new values in these two columns  where Alphabet value in ASC order     and the columns in Example table look like this  Now again perform the same operation     You can see the values in the first column are in desc order but second column is not in ASC order

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The other answers lack a concrete example  so here it goes   Given the following People table    FirstName    LastName      YearOfBirth ----------------------------------------   Thomas     Alva Edison     1847   Benjamin   Franklin        1706   Thomas     More            1478   Thomas     Jefferson       1826   If you execute the query below   SELECT   FROM People ORDER BY FirstName DESC  YearOfBirth ASC   The result set will look like this    FirstName    LastName      YearOfBirth ----------------------------------------   Thomas     More            1478   Thomas     Jefferson       1826   Thomas     Alva Edison     1847   Benjamin   Franklin        1706

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