# Sort OPC items

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/sort-opc-items/293>\
**Category:** Archived Topics\
**Created:** [June 18, 2007, 6:09pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/sort-opc-items/293 "2007-06-18T18:09:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![hirzel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@hirzel](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/hirzel)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2007, 6:09pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/sort-opc-items/293/1 "2007-06-18T18:09:20Z")

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A good idea for the next Factory SQL would be to allow sorting OPC items using Alphabetical order. This would greatly cut down the time used to find items inside of your database.

John

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**Author:** ![Colby.Clegg](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/colby.clegg/32/3282_2.png) [@Colby.Clegg](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Colby.Clegg)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2007, 4:04pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/sort-opc-items/293/2 "2007-06-22T16:04:01Z")

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For anyone who comes across this, it was addressed in this thread: [http://www.inductiveautomation.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2590](http://www.inductiveautomation.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2590)