Sort Order

     (array, database) Describes the various ways database files and arrays
     are ordered.

     .  Ascending

        Causes the order of data in a sort to be from lowest value to highest
        value.

     .  Descending

        Causes the order of data in a sort to be from highest value to lowest
        value.

     .  Chronological

        Causes data in a sort to be ordered based on a date value, from
        earliest to most recent.

     .  ASCII

        Causes data in a sort to be ordered according to the ASCII Code
        values of the data to be sorted.

     .  Dictionary

        The data in a sort is ordered in the way it would appear if the items
        sorted were entries in a dictionary of the English language.

     .  Collating Sequence

        Data in a sort will be placed in sequence following the order of
        characters in the IBM Extended Character Set.

     .  Natural

        The order in which data was entered into the database.