positional reference ⓸
BigQuery
Db2 (LUW)
DuckDB
H2
MariaDB
MySQL
Oracle DB
PostgreSQL
SQL Server
SQLite
2005
2007
2009
2011
2013
2015
2017
2019
2021
2023
2025
3.5.7 - 3.53.0
2008R2 - 2025
8.3 - 18
11gR1 - 23.26.1
5.0 - 9.7.0
a
5.1 - 12.2.2
a
2.1.210 - 2.4.240
b
c
1.4.191 - 2.0.206
a
b
1.0.0 - 1.5.0
9.7 - 12.1.4
2.0
Also via bind parameter:
order by ?
Negative values reverse the direction
Negative parameters (but not literals) reverse the direction