in the ORDER BY section of a statement, you can refer to data by the alias that was assigned to it, isntead of the function. will that help you out?
ie SELECT MAX(something) as ThatThing,DateName (Month, ChargeDate) As DaDate
From Some Table
group by SomeKey
Order By ThatThing,DaDate
Lowell
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