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title: "ORDER BY Clause Limitations | Microsoft Docs"
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# ORDER BY Clause Limitations
If a SELECT statement contains a GROUP BY clause and an ORDER BY clause, the ORDER BY clause can contain only a column in the result set or an expression in the GROUP BY clause.