sort elimination:
with
Db2 (LUW)
DuckDB
H2
MariaDB
MySQL
Oracle DB
PostgreSQL
SQL Server
SQLite
2007
2009
2011
2013
2015
2017
2019
2021
2023
2025
⚠ 3.37.0 - 3.51.0
a
⊘ 3.8.3 - 3.36.0
⚠ 2008R2 - 2025
a
b
✓ 12 - 18
⊘ 9.0 - 11
✓ 11gR1 - 23.26.0
⚠ 8.0.11 - 9.5.0
a
⚠ 10.2 - 12.1.2
a
⚠ 1.3.0 - 1.4.0
c
✓ 9.7 - 12.1.2
Not with window functions
When using
top
in the inner query
Not for nested
order by