RE: "Saved sorts"

["Lauren" <lt34 -at- csus -dot- edu>]

I know this word, I just can't remember it.  I went to M-W.com to get a
synonym and found "grouchy" and "irritable."  No!  Neither of those is the
word I'm looking for...

"Save your grouchy" just won't work.

NIST uses the word "sort" and also uses the words "arrangement" and
"derangement."  So I guess you can "derange" your sort order.
http://www.nist.gov/dads/HTML/sort.html

"Order" is the best word for documentation that I can think as an
alternative to "sort," but usually I see it as "sort order."  

SQL uses "ORDER BY" in SELECT statements and this probably the term that you
are thinking of.  SELECT defaults to ascending order, but also accepts the
modifiers "ASC" and "DESC" for ascending order and descending order.  The
typing convention in SQL is to use uppercase for SQL clauses.

Lauren


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> [mailto:techwr-l-bounces+lt34=csus -dot- edu -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com] On 
> Behalf Of Stephanie Bryant
> Sent: Friday, June 29, 2007 9:05 AM
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> Subject: Re: "Saved sorts"
> 
> Thank you for your help, though it's not quite the right 
> word, I think.
> 
> A query is when you search and filter the results by 
> criteria. A sort is
> when you put all the data in a specific order and save the 
> order, though not
> the data.
> 
> It may be called query in database terms, but if I use that 
> here, I'm going
> to have confused users, since query to them means to ask and 
> get a more
> specific answer.
> 
> --Stephanie
> 
> On 6/29/07, Dori Green <dgreen -at- associatedbrands -dot- com> wrote:
> >
> > Don't relational databases refer to this as a "query"?  It's a
> > 10th-grade-level word but last time I checked this is 
> appropriate for people
> > who have a license to go digging around in other people's 
> chests. <G>
> >
> 
> 
> -- 
> Stephanie Bryant
> Author, Videoblogging for Dummies
> mortaine -at- gmail -dot- com
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