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Transact-SQL Overview Transact-SQL Syntax Conventions New and Enhanced Features in Transa...+ (Add)+ (Positive)+ (String Concatenation)- (Negative)- (Subtract)* (Multiply)/ (Divide)% (Modulo)% (Wildcard - Character(s) to Match...& (Bitwise AND)| (Bitwise OR)^ (Bitwise Exclusive OR)~ (Bitwise NOT)= (Equals)> (Greater Than)< (Less Than)>= (Greater Than or Equal To)<= (Less Than or Equal To)<> (Not Equal To)!< (Not Less Than)!= (Not Equal To)!> (Not Greater Than)-- (Comment)/*...*/ (Comment)[ ] (Wildcard - Character(s) to Mat...[^] (Wildcard - Character(s) Not to..._ (Wildcard - Match One Character)@@CONNECTIONS @@CPU_BUSY @@CURSOR_ROWS @@DATEFIRST @@DBTS @@ERROR @@FETCH_STATUS @@IDENTITY @@IDLE @@IO_BUSY @@LANGID @@LANGUAGE @@LOCK_TIMEOUT @@MAX_CONNECTIONS @@MAX_PRECISION @@NESTLEVEL @@OPTIONS @@PACK_RECEIVED @@PACK_SENT @@PACKET_ERRORS @@PROCID @@REMSERVER @@ROWCOUNT @@SERVERNAME @@SERVICENAME @@SPID @@TEXTSIZE @@TIMETICKS @@TOTAL_ERRORS @@TOTAL_READ @@TOTAL_WRITE @@TRANCOUNT @@VERSION ABS ACOS ALL ALTER DATABASE ALTER FUNCTION ALTER PROCEDURE ALTER TABLE ALTER TRIGGER ALTER VIEW AND ANY APP_NAME ASCII ASIN ATAN ATN2 AVG BACKUP BEGIN...END BEGIN DISTRIBUTED TRANSACTION BEGIN TRANSACTION BETWEEN binary and varbinary BINARY_CHECKSUM bit BREAK BULK INSERT CASE CAST and CONVERT CEILING char and varchar CHAR CHARINDEX CHECKPOINT CHECKSUM CHECKSUM_AGG CLOSE COALESCE COLLATE COLLATIONPROPERTY COL_LENGTH COL_NAME COLUMNPROPERTY COMMIT TRANSACTION COMMIT WORK Constants CONTAINS CONTAINSTABLE CONTINUE Control-of-Flow Language COS COT COUNT COUNT_BIG CREATE DATABASE CREATE DEFAULT CREATE FUNCTION CREATE INDEX CREATE PROCEDURE CREATE RULE CREATE SCHEMA CREATE STATISTICS CREATE TABLE CREATE TRIGGER CREATE VIEW CURRENT_TIMESTAMP CURRENT_USER cursor CURSOR_STATUS Cursors DATABASEPROPERTY DATABASEPROPERTYEX Data Types DATALENGTH DATEADD DATEDIFF DATENAME DATEPART datetime and smalldatetime DAY DB_ID DB_NAME DBCC DEALLOCATE decimal and numeric DECLARE @local_variable DECLARE CURSOR DEGREES DELETE DENY DIFFERENCE DROP DATABASE DROP DEFAULT DROP FUNCTION DROP INDEX DROP PROCEDURE DROP RULE DROP STATISTICS DROP TABLE DROP TRIGGER DROP VIEW DUMP ELSE (IF...ELSE)END (BEGIN...END)EXECUTE EXISTS EXP Expressions FETCH FILE_ID FILE_NAME FILEGROUP_ID FILEGROUP_NAME FILEGROUPPROPERTY FILEPROPERTY float and real FLOOR fn_get_sql fn_helpcollations fn_listextendedproperty fn_servershareddrives fn_trace_geteventinfo fn_trace_getfilterinfo fn_trace_getinfo fn_trace_gettable fn_virtualfilestats fn_virtualservernodes FORMATMESSAGE FREETEXT FREETEXTTABLE FROM FULLTEXTCATALOGPROPERTY FULLTEXTSERVICEPROPERTY Functions GETANSINULL GETDATE GETUTCDATE GO GOTO GRANT GROUP BY GROUPING HAS_DBACCESS HAVING HOST_ID HOST_NAME IDENT_CURRENT IDENT_INCR IDENT_SEED IDENTITY (Property)IDENTITY (Function)IF...ELSE image IN INDEXKEY_PROPERTY INDEXPROPERTY INDEX_COL Information Schema Views INSERT int, bigint, smallint, and tinyint IS_MEMBER IS_SRVROLEMEMBER ISDATE IS [NOT] NULL ISNULL ISNUMERIC KILL LEFT LEN LIKE LOAD LOG LOG10 LOWER LTRIM MAX MIN money and smallmoney MONTH NCHAR nchar and nvarchar NEWID Northwind Sample Database NOT ntext, text, and image NULLIF numeric OBJECT_ID OBJECT_NAME OBJECTPROPERTY OPEN OPENDATASOURCE OPENQUERY OPENROWSET OPENXML Operators OR ORDER BY PARSENAME PATINDEX PERMISSIONS PI POWER Predicate PRINT pubs Sample Database QUOTENAME RADIANS RAISERROR RAND READTEXT real RECONFIGURE REPLACE REPLICATE Reserved Keywords RESTORE RESTORE FILELISTONLY RESTORE HEADERONLY RESTORE LABELONLY RESTORE VERIFYONLY RETURN REVERSE REVOKE RIGHT ROLLBACK TRANSACTION ROLLBACK WORK ROUND ROWCOUNT_BIG RTRIM SAVE TRANSACTION SCOPE_IDENTITY Search Condition SELECT @local_variable SELECT SERVERPROPERTY SESSION_USER SESSIONPROPERTY SET @local_variable SET SETUSER SHUTDOWN SIGN SIN smalldatetime smallint smallmoney SOME | ANY SOUNDEX SPACE sql_variant SQL_VARIANT_PROPERTY SQUARE SQRT STATS_DATE STDEV STDEVP STR STUFF SUBSTRING SUM SUSER_ID SUSER_NAME SUSER_SID SUSER_SNAME System Stored Procedures System Tables SYSTEM_USER table TAN text TEXTPTR TEXTVALID timestamp tinyint Trace Flags Transactions TRIGGER_NESTLEVEL TRUNCATE TABLE TYPEPROPERTY UNICODE UNION uniqueidentifier UPDATE UPDATE STATISTICS UPDATETEXT UPPER USE USER USER_ID USER_NAME VAR varbinary varchar VARP WAITFOR WHERE WHILE WRITETEXT YEAR

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Transact-SQL Reference (SQL Server 2000)

ORDER BY

Specifies the sort order used on columns returned in a SELECT statement. For more information, see SELECT.

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