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LookupOrderedRows()

LookupOrderedRows is an AMPscript function in the data extensions category. count <= 0 returns all matches.

Syntax

LookupOrderedRows(de, count, "field asc|desc", col, value, ...)

Example

%%[ SET @top = LookupOrderedRows("Orders", 1, "Total desc", "Email", emailaddr) ]%%
Biggest order: %%=Field(Row(@top, 1), "OrderId")=%%
Rendered output
Biggest order: 1002

Output produced by AmpSend's AMPscript engine (validated against Salesforce's own test corpus) - not a hand-written result.

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Official Salesforce documentation

LookupOrderedRows in the official AMPscript reference - or browse the official index of AMPscript functions for platform behavior and edge cases.

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