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Oracle® OLAP DML Reference
10g Release 2 (10.2)

Part Number B14346-03
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SORT function

The SORT function returns the dimension or dimension surrogate values that result from a specified SORT command.

Return value

The return value varies depending on the use of the function:

Syntax

SORT([INTEGER]dimension [byhierarchy] [bycriterion...])

where:

Arguments

See the SORT command for a complete description of all arguments except INTEGER.

INTEGER

When you use the INTEGER keyword, the function returns the position numbers of the values in the default dimension status rather than the names. When you use INTEGER with a valueset, the function returns the position numbers of the values in the default dimension status, not in the valueset.