Re: [Q] Why cant I ORDER BY on a SELECT...UNION in PL/SQL

From: Satish Narasimha <satishn_at_blr.sni.de>
Date: 1998/02/25
Message-ID: <34F39F90.C0E_at_blr.sni.de>#1/1


>
> Try using the position of the column instead of the name.
> In your example,
>
> select col1,col2 from tab1
> union
> select col1,col2 from tab2
> order by 1
>
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hello,

    As per ur query it works for me. It didn't show any errors to me.    But one thing u need to take care here is both col1 of A and B    table should be matching clearly.( Datatypes).

   Pleace check this and work out....Hope this might help u....    All the best

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 Satish N Received on Wed Feb 25 1998 - 00:00:00 CET

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