sorts on birth dates first (oldest to newest) and then sorts on the names in alphabetical order. The order of columns is important!

GROUP BY

Now you know how to sort results! Often you'll need to aggregate results. For example, you might want to count the number of male and female employees in your company. Here, what you want is to group all the males together and count them, and group all the females together and count them. In SQL, GROUP BY allows you to group a result by one or more columns, like so: