ORDER BY clause
This page documents an earlier version of InfluxDB OSS. InfluxDB 3 Core is the latest stable version.
Use the ORDER BY clause to sort data.
ORDER BY time DESC
By default, InfluxDB returns results in ascending time order; the first point
returned has the oldest timestamp and
the last point returned has the most recent timestamp.
ORDER BY time DESC reverses that order such that InfluxDB returns the points
with the most recent timestamps first.
Syntax
SELECT_clause FROM_clause [WHERE_clause] [GROUP_BY_clause] ORDER BY time DESCIf the query includes a GROUP BY clause, ORDER by time DESC must appear after the GROUP BY clause.
If the query includes a WHERE clause and no GROUP BY clause, ORDER by time DESC must appear after the WHERE clause.
Examples
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