SQLxD Part 15 — Ordering

This is the fifteenth part of the SQLxD series. For your convenience you can find other parts in the table of contents in Part 1 – XML Transformation

Last time we implemented grouping, today we focus on ordering. These two operations are very similar.

First, we need to know which column we use for sorting and the order (ascending/descending):

And now comes the operator:

We first group rows and then sort them. And here are the tests: