order by 2 criteria sql code example

Example 1: order by with more than one column

The following shows that you can perform order by with more
than one column.
'ASC' denotes ascending sort order, but is optional as it is the default sort order.
'DESC' denotes descending sort order

SELECT Id, CompanyName, City, Country  
FROM Supplier 
WHERE Country IN ('USA', 'Japan', 'Germany') 
ORDER BY Country ASC, CompanyName DESC

Example 2: sort order on two columns sql

Sort by multiple column : ORDER BY column1 DESC, column2