Order By month and year in sql with sum

Question

I have a stored procedure and the select statement is:

SELECT     { fn MONTHNAME(OrderDate) } AS MonthName, YEAR(OrderDate) AS Year, SUM(TotalValue) AS Profi         


        

Answer 1

Just add

Order by max(OrderDate) 

at the end.

SELECT     { fn MONTHNAME(OrderDate) } AS MonthName, YEAR(OrderDate) AS Year,     SUM(TotalValue) AS Profits
FROM         [Order]
WHERE     (YEAR(OrderDate) = @year)
GROUP BY { fn MONTHNAME(OrderDate) }, YEAR(OrderDate)
Order by max(OrderDate) 

Now about how it works:

If you order by month , year separately, it will go in ascending order of month in alphabetical order (April before January). If you order by order date id will be ordered based on a date value which is of course ordered by month/year.