Re: UNION is ruining my ORDER BY!
Kim Pedersen wrote:
> If I have a "select Bla moreBla order by bla" , sorting is nice
> if I then make a union
> (select bla morebla from blaTable order by Bla)
> union
> (Select damn moredamn from DamnTable )
>
> the sorting goes wrong - even if the "Select damn .." return 0 records
In
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/union.html, one can read:
ORDER BY for individual SELECT statements within parentheses only has an effect when combined with LIMIT. Otherwise, the ORDER BY is optimized away.
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