Arrange Date Record For Free

Sort the table Select a cell within the data. Select Home > Sort & Filter. Or, select Data > Sort. Select an option: Sort A to Z - sorts the selected column in an ascending order. Sort Z to A - sorts the selected column in a descending order.

Descending order is the opposite of ascending order, from lowercase z to uppercase A for character types, and from highest to lowest for numeric data types. DATE and DATETIME data is sorted from latest to earliest, and INTERVAL data is ordered from longest to shortest span of time.

Drag down the column to select the dates you want to sort. Click Home tab > arrow under Sort & Filter, and then click Sort Oldest to Newest, or Sort Newest to Oldest.

To order your data by month name in SQL, use the ORDER BY clause in your SQL query. This clause allows you to specify the order in which you want the data to be returned. To order by month name, you can use the MONTHNAME() function.

You can use the ASC and DESC keywords to specify ascending (smallest value first) or descending (largest value first) order. The default order is ascending. For DATE and DATETIME data types, smallest means earliest in time and largest means latest in time.

SQL ORDER BY Keyword ORDER BY. The ORDER BY command is used to sort the result set in ascending or descending order. ... ASC. The ASC command is used to sort the data returned in ascending order. ... DESC. The DESC command is used to sort the data returned in descending order.

A standard order is often called ascending (corresponding to the fact that the standard order of numbers is ascending, i.e. A to Z, 0 to 9), the reverse order descending (Z to A, 9 to 0). For dates and times, ascending means that earlier values precede later ones e.g. 1/1/2000 will sort ahead of 1/1/2001.

Sort by datesDrag down the column to select the dates you want to sort.Click Home tab > arrow under Sort & Filter, and then click Sort Oldest to Newest, or Sort Newest to Oldest.

Thus, a descending ordering puts the most recent dates first. Because sorting by dates is much more common than by name, ordering is descending by default.

Arranging dates in chronological order in Excel is very easy. You just use the standard Ascending Sort option: Select the dates you want to sort chronologically. On the Home tab, in the Formats group, click Sort & Filter and select Sort Oldest to Newest.