Re: Problems with UNION ALL and ORDER BY

Kaloyan Iliev Iliev wrote:
>
> Dear friends...,
> I have the following problem:
>
>
> select ..... from .... where ....
> UNION ALL
>
> select ... from .... where ....
> ORDER BY field1
>
> But the the order by doesn't work properly. It returns the rows of the
> first query ordered and then appends the rows of the second query
> ordered. But this is not what i expect. I expect the result of both
> queries to be orderd. So I try.
>
> SELECT TEMP.*
> FROM
> (
> select ..... from .... where ....
> UNION ALL
>
> select ... from .... where ....
> ) TEMP
> ORDER BY TEMP.field1
>
> But this also doesn't work. Any ideas.p

This have to work. Could you please provide a real example ( creation table,
insertion data and query execution ).

Regards
Gaetano Mendola