ScottPletcher (10/18/2013)

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T.Ashish (10/17/2013)

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Jeff Moden (10/17/2013)

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ScottPletcher (10/17/2013)

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Or just:

ORDER BY 1

I often avoid using the column names at all in UNIONed queries, as the names somehow seem to

change a lot 🙂 :

Thank goodness that method has finally been deprecated.

+1 for Jeff Moden

Why? Just makes it more difficult to order complex columns and/or UNIONed statements.