Order by clause being ignored in region definition?

Question

Hi-
I've created an interactive report on a database table. In this report, i'd like my data to display in a certain order initially, but allow it to be changed, if necessary. My query looks like:
select action_year, action_month, action_count , (and so on)
from my_table
order by action_year, action_month, action_count desc
When the report is displayed, the data does not display sorted in the order specified in my SQL (for the first row returned, i'll see '2007' when i have '2008' data in the table). I'm wondering if the "order by" clause is ignored by the APEX query parser and if so, how can i get my data to display in the manner that i am programmatically after. As far as i know, i've not specified any additional sorts on my report data.
cheers,
jim.

Answer 1

If you create a view like this:
CREATE VIEW emp_vu
AS
   SELECT   ename, empno, job, sal, deptno
       FROM emp
   ORDER BY deptno, enameand use a select in your interactive report
SELECT *
   FROM emp_vuthe data will show initialy as it is supposed to. You are
able to sort on it as you need. The only thing you need to
disable (exclude) is the single link column. Apparently, if this
option is enabled, apex sorts on that link value.
Denes Kubicek
http://deneskubicek.blogspot.com/
http://www.opal-consulting.de/training
http://apex.oracle.com/pls/otn/f?p=31517:1
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