• Luis Cazares (10/18/2013)


    ScottPletcher (10/18/2013)


    T.Ashish (10/17/2013)


    Jeff Moden (10/17/2013)


    ScottPletcher (10/17/2013)


    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.

    Is as simple as using column aliases from first query.:-)

    Even I have never used ordinal position ever, so I'm glad its deprecated.