Sorting Order in Oracle APEX Classic Report

In APEX, the sorting option for a classic report is divided into two aspects: How records will be sorted when the report first renders? Whether the end-user can change the sort order interactively by clicking the column header. A classic report can be developed using either the static query or the dynamic query and the sorting behavior is different for both options. First, we will see the sorting behavior for the report based on the static query. The below classic report is based on the static query and displays all the records of the EMP_DUP table. For this blog, I created EMP_DUP which is the same as the EMP table but contains duplicate records. The sorting aspects for this report are determined by the properties in each column's sorting section. The below image shows the sorting section for JOB. The Default Sequence property determines the initial sort order. Each column that participates in the initial sort order will have a unique s...