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I noticed that SOQL with ORDER BY and NULLS LAST ASC returns results in wrong order (especially when I order by field from relationship). I wonder if it is some kind of bug or I've done some mistake in my query syntax?

Following Example:

List<PermissionSet> permSets = [
    SELECT 
           Name, 
           Label, 
           Id, 
           Description, 
           License.Name, 
           LastModifiedDate, 
           LastModifiedBy.Name 
    FROM 
           PermissionSet 
    ORDER BY License.Name ASC NULLS LAST LIMIT 100
];

for (PermissionSet permSet : permSets) {
    System.debug(permSet.License.Name + ' ' + permSet.License);
}

Return following results:

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I tried your query in me DEV org and seems that it's displaying results correctly.Debug logs

Debug logs

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  • Thanks @enrik-hysko, but I traied on my three DEV orgs and results always were in uncorrect order
    – Grzegorz Połuch
    Jul 6, 2018 at 14:30
  • Btw. on your attached screens I can't see licenses like Sales Console User, Sales User, CRM User. That problem might be connected with specific records?
    – Grzegorz Połuch
    Jul 6, 2018 at 14:38
  • I'm not sure, I think that licenses that you have mentioned are maybe because you have configured their corresponding profiles on your org
    – Enrik Hysko
    Jul 6, 2018 at 14:56
  • Thats licenses are Permission Set Licenses and are correspond to Permission Sets @enrik-hysko
    – Grzegorz Połuch
    Jul 6, 2018 at 15:04
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    and to remain to your question, it's actually strange that you are getting results in wrong order. Maybe you should raise a case to SFDC..
    – Enrik Hysko
    Jul 6, 2018 at 15:25
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So I changed your ORDER BY to use the LicenseId instead of using the Name field of the license. When I tried your exact query, I received the same result as you received. 

List<PermissionSet> permSets = [
        SELECT
                Name,
                Label,
                Id,
                Description,
                License.Name,
                LastModifiedDate,
                LastModifiedBy.Name
        FROM
                PermissionSet
        ORDER BY LicenseId NULLS LAST LIMIT 100
];

for (PermissionSet permSet : permSets) {
    System.debug(permSet.License.Name + ' ' + permSet.License);
}

this will render the below order:

debug_output

Also you could exclude the nulls as they obviously will be useless. 

List<PermissionSet> permSets = [
        SELECT
                Name,
                Label,
                Id,
                Description,
                License.Name,
                LastModifiedDate,
                LastModifiedBy.Name
        FROM
                PermissionSet
        WHERE License.Name <> NULL
        ORDER BY License.Name ASC NULLS LAST LIMIT 100
];

for (PermissionSet permSet : permSets) {
    System.debug(permSet.License.Name + ' ' + permSet.License);
}

This will give the following output:

render_order2

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  • Thanks @ronnie but my requirments involve orderby License.Name and I unfortunately can't exclude nulls because I have to display all Permission Sets.
    – Grzegorz Połuch
    Jul 7, 2018 at 17:59
  • @gpoluch How about making your ORDER BY clause to be ORDER BY License.Name, Name ASC NULLS LAST That yielded better results for mine.
    – Ronnie
    Jul 8, 2018 at 2:56
  • What do you mean by better results @ronnie? I'd expect correct results, not better than that with wrong order.
    – Grzegorz Połuch
    Jul 8, 2018 at 8:45

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