asc

Description

Specify the ordering as ascending when processing data. This is used by ordered windowing functions (like lag and last), ordered aggregation functions (like array_agg) and the sort verb.

Return type

ordering

Domain

This is a scalar function (calculates a single output value for a single input row.)

Categories

Usage

asc( columnname )

Argument

Type

Required

Multiple

columnname

any

Required

Only one

Examples

sort asc(foo)

Sort the dataset in ascending order by values in column foo.

statsby list:array_agg(username, asc(timestamp), group_by(hostname)

Lists all users for each host, in order of ascending timestamp within each host assuming you have a table with columns timestamp, hostname and username.