Organize responses with ORDER BY

- [Instructor] When we get information back from a query,…it's usually in an order that isn't always helpful.…So to sort data, we can use the "order by" keyword.…Let's set up a statement…that will give us a lot of information back here.…I'll write "select first name,…last name,…from people."…There's my thousand rows…and I can see that it's all over the place…in terms of sorting.…There's no pattern to the first name…or to the last name.…

This is the order that the records are in the database.…Sure, but that's not how I want to see them.…I'll add an "order by" clause…and I'll need to give it a field to sort on.…I'll add "first name" for now.…There we go.…The first names are alphabetical.…These are sorted in an order called ascending,…which means that the values start small and get larger.…And that's the default.…

I can also tell the database to give me ascending order…by adding the keyword "ASC"…in the "order by" clause.…Or, I can switch up the order to descending,…with larger values first,…with the "DESC" keyword.…These are a little bit confusing to me sometimes…