Using Order by with create view or insert in Interbase

Question

I'm having problems sorting data in interbase, my timestamp is in seperate columns of year,month,date, etc so I need to order in that order (though in this case it wouldn't work even to order by a single field). For some reason the ORDER command throws a 'token unknown' error when used in combination with CREATE VIEW or INSERT INTO. Am I making a dumb syntax error here, or is there a more fundamental issue with the way I'm trying to ude the ORDER command?

CREATE VIEW HOURLY_AVES_SORT (MEASYEAR,MEASMONTH,MEASDAY,MEASHOUR,GH,GK,GDH,TA) as
SELECT
  HOURLY_AVES_ALL.MEASYEAR, HOURLY_AVES_ALL.MEASMONTH, HOURLY_AVES_ALL.MEASDAY,
  HOURLY_AVES_ALL.MEASHOUR, /*HOURLY_AVES.MEASMIN, HOURLY_AVES_ALL.MEASSECOND, */
  HOURLY_AVES_ALL.GH, HOURLY_AVES_ALL.GK, HOURLY_AVES_ALL.GDH, HOURLY_AVES_ALL.TA

FROM HOURLY_AVES

ORDER BY
   HOURLY_AVES_ALL.MEASYEAR, HOURLY_AVES_ALL.MEASMONTH, HOURLY_AVES_ALL.MEASDAY,
  HOURLY_AVES_ALL.MEASHOUR

trying to copy the data into another table rather than a view, throws the same token unknown error, ie:

INSERT INTO HOURLY_AVES_SORTED 
(MEASYEAR,MEASMONTH,MEASDAY,MEASHOUR,GH,GK,GDH,TA)

SELECT 
HOURLY_AVES_ALL.MEASYEAR, HOURLY_AVES_ALL.MEASMONTH, HOURLY_AVES_ALL.MEASDAY,
HOURLY_AVES_ALL.MEASHOUR, /*HOURLY_AVES.MEASMIN, HOURLY_AVES_ALL.MEASSECOND, */
HOURLY_AVES_ALL.GH, HOURLY_AVES_ALL.GK, HOURLY_AVES_ALL.GDH, HOURLY_AVES_ALL.TA

FROM HOURLY_AVES

ORDER BY
(MEASYEAR, MEASMONTH, MEASDAY,MEASHOUR, GH, GK,GH, TA) 

any tips very welcome, Brian

Answer 1

Interbase doesn't support ORDER BY clause in the SELECT statement of the view. See the documentation, page 8-4 in the Data Definition Guide (youll find the page when selecting from the bookmarks "Working with views" -> "Creating views" -> "Using the SELECT Statement").

Answer 2

Try to use column numbers:

CREATE VIEW HOURLY_AVES_SORT (MEASYEAR,MEASMONTH,MEASDAY,MEASHOUR,GH,GK,GDH,TA) as
SELECT
  h.MEASYEAR, h.MEASMONTH, h.MEASDAY, h.MEASHOUR, 
  h.GH, h.GK, h.GDH, h.TA

FROM 
  HOURLY_AVES h

ORDER BY
   1, 2, 3, 4