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As most, if not all, implementation of SQL use the ASC keyword by default in an ORDER BY clause when it is omitted.

Are there valid use case for the ASC keyword?

I am NOT asking for psychological reasons, opinions, good practices, readability or anything fabricated around SQL that can change from one person's perspective to another.

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Not really, maybe the query is more readable. ASC is like the AS keyword, optional. - user237716

In my team I insist on it. It shows me that they thought about whether it should be ascending or descending. Otherwise they forgot to think. – user68670

There is a rule: Anything that is not described explicitly can be anything. Never rely on the default settings - in doing so, you lose control of the process. Why save bytes? what to do with them then? Nobody will buy them. – user150107

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