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## `ARRAY_SORT`

**Applies to:** ✅ Data 360 SQL ✅ Tableau Hyper API

Sorts the elements of an array in ascending or descending order.

*   `<input_array>`: The array to sort.

*   `ascending`: A boolean flag that indicates the sort order. When `true` (default), sorts in ascending order. When `false`, sorts in descending order.

Returns an array with elements sorted in the specified order. NULL values are always first in the output array.

*   NULL values are always first in the output array, regardless of sort order.
*   The default sort order is ascending.

Sort an array in ascending order (default behavior).

Returns `array[1, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 9]`, sorted in ascending order.

Sort an array in descending order using the optional flag.

Returns `array[9, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 1]`, sorted in descending order.

Sort an array that contains NULL values.

Returns `array[null, null, 1, 2, 3]`. NULL values are first, followed by the sorted non-NULL values.

*   [Array Data Type](https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/data/data-cloud-query-guide/references/dc-sql-reference/array.html)


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