ORDER BY not working in a SQL table query?

Question

question

Craig DIckson asked Jan 24, '23 Andrew O commented Jan 27, '23

ORDER BY not working in a SQL table query?

I am using a table query with SQL and it doesn't seem to be using the ORDER BY clause. What am I dong wrong?

Here is the query:

Table tableBestLocation = Table.query("SELECT * FROM $1 ORDER BY 'CycleLastUsed' ASC LIMIT 600",Table("tableStorageStatus")); //
tableBestLocation.cloneTo(Table("QueryDump"));

Here is the searched table:

And her is the result table:

With the

ORDER BY 'CycleLastUsed' ASC

I expected (and wanted) the first row in the result to be LocationIndex 2, since its value of CycleLastUsed is lower than that of the first record. (Note that I am looking for the lowest, which may not be zero after a while.)

Software Version:

FlexSim 23.0.2

sql order by

1674523882635.png (13.0 KiB)

1674524237765.png (22.0 KiB)

· 1

Andrew O commented · Jan 27, 2023 at 06:48 PM

Hi @Craig DIckson, was Jason Lightfoot's answer helpful? If so, please click the "Accept" button at the bottom of their answer. Or if you still have questions, add a comment and we'll continue the conversation.

If we haven't heard back from you within 3 business days we'll auto-accept an answer, but you can always unaccept and comment back to reopen your question.

0 ·

Answer 1 · 2023-01-24T02:53:47Z

Jason Lightfoot answered Jan 24, '23

You don't need the apostrophes around the field name - try without and it should work fine.

question