{"id":3245,"date":"2016-03-07T01:44:37","date_gmt":"2016-03-07T01:44:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.garysieling.com\/blog\/?p=3245"},"modified":"2016-03-07T01:44:37","modified_gmt":"2016-03-07T01:44:37","slug":"rethinkdb-order-example","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.garysieling.com\/blog\/rethinkdb-order-example\/","title":{"rendered":"RethinkDB: ORDER BY example"},"content":{"rendered":"

You can control the ordering of a query in RethinkDB simple with the orderBy predicate:<\/p>\n

r.db('test')\n .table('users')\n .orderBy('last_name')\n<\/pre>\n
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You can control the order by using the “desc” function on the global r object:<\/p>\n
r.db('test')\n .table('users')\n .orderBy(r.desc('user_name'))\n<\/pre>\n
To make case-insensitive searches, you can downcase the result:<\/p>\n
r.db('test')\n .table('users')\n .orderBy( x => x('user_name').downcase() )\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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