| From: | Bruno Wolff III <bruno(at)wolff(dot)to> |
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| To: | "Luis H(dot)" <pgsql-novice(at)geekhouse(dot)no-ip(dot)com> |
| Cc: | pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: ORDER BY question |
| Date: | 2003-09-01 07:04:36 |
| Message-ID: | 20030901070436.GA28569@wolff.to |
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Please don't start new topics by by replying to unrelated messages.
On Sun, Aug 31, 2003 at 21:44:12 -0400,
"Luis H." <pgsql-novice(at)geekhouse(dot)no-ip(dot)com> wrote:
> I have two tables, table A contains users (id, username, password) , and
> table B contains a row that signifies the 'owner' of each particular entry,
> referencing an id in A.
>
> What I want to do is do a query where I order table B by owner, but
> alphabetically by username. The problem, obviously, is that table B only
> contains id's (numbers, indexing to A), which don't correspond to the
> alphabetical order of the usernames.
You should do a join on A and B and then you can order the output by
fields in both A and B.
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