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On 12 Apr 2013 10:27, rob@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
On a related note, I don't think this is valid:
&SqlStmt *bcat 'UsedDate desc'
because I don't think you can order by a derived column unless you do
one of two things:
One, do an order by 4, which means use the fourth column.
Or, two, use a CTE (Common Table Expression) and put your order by
after the CTE like this
with T1 as (
select
odlbnm, odobnm, odobtp, ... as createDate, ... as UsedDate, odobtx
from qtemp/dspqry)
select * from T1 order by CreateDate

It is valid. I have no recollection of since when, but the SQL allows using the named expression in the ORDER BY. Works fine on v5r3.


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