Ordering a Group By query

Question

I finally have a query that's properly doing the GROUP BY. Now I want to take those contents and apply a sort to them. Unfortunately, when I tried to add an ORDER BY, it said that it wasn't a GROUP BY something. So, I tried to do an outside SELECT from those contents and order those, but that went awry. So, I need help.
Here's the query that I'm trying to sort.
SELECT g.proposal_id,g.end_date,g.title,
g.funding_agency,g.status,g.id,
p.id,p.fname,p.lname,p.link,p.status AS people_status,
SUM(g.funding) AS project_funding,
MIN(g.start_date) AS start_date
FROM grants_contracts g, people p
WHERE g.id = p.id
AND g.end_date >= SYSDATE
AND g.status = 'current'
GROUP BY g.proposal_id,g.end_date,g.title,
g.funding_agency,g.status,g.id,
p.id,p.fname,p.lname,p.link,p.status
thanks!

Answer 1

It looks like you made a variable of each column selection. I only wanted to try one, so I variabled g.title into g_title, and also included g.title, just to make the code that relies on it work for now. Still, I received "column ambigously identified".
select * from ( <!------>
                                   SELECT g.proposal_id,g.title g_title,g.title,
                                             g.funding_agency,g.status,g.id,
                                             p.id,p.fname,p.lname,p.link,p.status AS people_status,SUM(g.funding) AS project_funding,
                                             MIN(g.start_date) AS start_date
                                        FROM grants_contracts g, people p
                                        WHERE g.id = p.id
                                             AND g.end_date >= SYSDATE
                                             AND g.status = 'current'
                                   GROUP BY g.proposal_id,g.title,
                                                  g.funding_agency,g.status,g.id,
                                                  p.id,p.fname,p.lname,p.link,p.status
                                        order by g_title
I left off the semicolon because when I added it, I received "illegal character".