Sort sequence used with ORDER BY and row selection

The examples show how rows are ordered and selected for the sort sequence used.

The values in the JOB column are in mixed case. You can see the values 'Mgr', 'MGR', and 'mgr'.

Table 1. The STAFF table
ID NAME DEPT JOB YEARS SALARY COMM
10 Sanders 20 Mgr 7 18357.50 0
20 Pernal 20 Sales 8 18171.25 612.45
30 Merenghi 38 MGR 5 17506.75 0
40 OBrien 38 Sales 6 18006.00 846.55
50 Hanes 15 Mgr 10 20659.80 0
60 Quigley 38 SALES 0 16808.30 650.25
70 Rothman 15 Sales 7 16502.83 1152.00
80 James 20 Clerk 0 13504.60 128.20
90 Koonitz 42 sales 6 18001.75 1386.70
100 Plotz 42 mgr 6 18352.80 0

In the following examples, the results are shown for each statement using:

  • *HEX sort sequence
  • Shared-weight sort sequence using the language identifier ENU
  • Unique-weight sort sequence using the language identifier ENU
Note: ENU is chosen as a language identifier by specifying either SRTSEQ(*LANGIDUNQ), or SRTSEQ(*LANGIDSHR) and LANGID(ENU), on the CRTSQLxxx, STRSQL, or RUNSQLSTM commands, or by using the SET OPTION statement.