Andreas: On Sun, Jan 14, 2018 at 1:03 PM, Andreas Joseph Krogh <andreas@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > SELECT q.* FROM ( > SELECT comp.id, comp.name > FROM company comp JOIN req r ON r.company_id = comp.id > ORDER BY LOWER(comp.name) ASC > ) AS q > ORDER BY r.status ASC > > What I'm trying to do here is to order by some status (which may be only 1 of 3 values, for instance OPEN, IN_PROGRESS, CLOSED), then order by company-name so I get results for each status sorted by company-name. > > Is this kind of sort stable, can I assume the pre-sorted result's order is preserved so I achieve what I want? I doubt it is mandated to be stable. But IIRC you can sort by a non-returned field, so you should be able to do it in just one query ( http://sqlfiddle.com/#!17/aaa62/3 ) I would try SELECT comp.id, comp.name FROM company comp JOIN req r ON r.company_id = comp.id ORDER BY r.status ASC, LOWER(comp.name) ASC Francisco Olarte.
