To get the sorted result from MySQL select statement we use order by clause with SELECT statement. Syntax: SELECT column_list FROM tablename ORDER BY column_name1 [ASC][DESC],column_name2 [ASC][DESC],...
SELECT select_list FROM table_name ORDER BY column1 [ASC|DESC], column2 [ASC|DESC], ...;
SELECT last_name, first_name, city FROM contacts WHERE last_name = 'Johnson' ORDER BY city DESC;