topic questionable 'order by' functionality in ArcGIS REST APIs and Services Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-rest-apis-and-services-questions/questionable-order-by-functionality/m-p/68093#M316 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>trying out the new order by parameter in the query method. It appears the order by is applied to the results the query gets from the database, that it is not applied directly to the database query. is this correct?</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Fri, 05 Aug 2011 22:31:26 GMT LukePhilips 2011-08-05T22:31:26Z questionable 'order by' functionality https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-rest-apis-and-services-questions/questionable-order-by-functionality/m-p/68093#M316 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>trying out the new order by parameter in the query method. It appears the order by is applied to the results the query gets from the database, that it is not applied directly to the database query. is this correct?</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Fri, 05 Aug 2011 22:31:26 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-rest-apis-and-services-questions/questionable-order-by-functionality/m-p/68093#M316 LukePhilips 2011-08-05T22:31:26Z Re: questionable 'order by' functionality https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-rest-apis-and-services-questions/questionable-order-by-functionality/m-p/68094#M317 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>The order applies to the fields by which the results are ordered. Please note this is supported only if the datasource of the layer/table supports ordering as indicated by the "supportsAdvancedQueries" property of the layer/table.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Fri, 19 Aug 2011 14:36:27 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-rest-apis-and-services-questions/questionable-order-by-functionality/m-p/68094#M317 RaviNarayanan 2011-08-19T14:36:27Z