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Sometimes, SELECT Really Is Broken

Craig Stuntz's Weblog – We got a bug report from a customer the other day; a certain query in one of our web services was giving the following error: A column has been specified more than once in the order by list. Columns in the order by list must be unique. Seems clear enough, except that There was no duplication in the ORDER BY. Our DBA discovered that the "problem" reference was [Project2].[C5] ASC, which is an alias, not a real DB column name. It certainly appeared only once, but removing it made the error go away. There is documentation which implies that this was an intentional change in SQL Server 2005, ...

Favorite? Off-Topic? Craig Stuntz @ 2011-11-03 13:09