Front End 'Ascending' ≠ Database 'ASC'

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Post by wolframkriesing » Wed, Dec 24, 2025, 12:13 PM UTC

Front End 'Ascending' ≠ Database 'ASC'
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Re: Front End 'Ascending' ≠ Database 'ASC'

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Post by f30e3dfed1c9 » Wed, Dec 24, 2025, 3:55 PM UTC

This article is weird: "In business terms, 'ascending' often means 'what we want to see first'—the best values, the top performers, the most important items."

Maybe I've led an unusually sheltered life or something but I have never heard anyone use "ascending" in that sense.

Re: Front End 'Ascending' ≠ Database 'ASC'

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Post by wolframkriesing » Thu, Dec 25, 2025, 1:01 PM UTC

f30e3dfed1c9 wrote: post #2

This article is weird: "In business terms, 'ascending' often means 'what we want to see first'—the best values, the top performers, the most important items." Maybe I've led an unusually sheltered life or something but I have never heard anyone use "ascending" in that sense.

which is exactly the confusion, a lot of table/data view sorts use "ascending" or "descending" but it means a different thing every time, sometimes lowest first sometimes highest first. I might could have written a better introduction. Maybe I just coded myself into a bubble :)