The ORDER BY clause in Oracle SQL is used to sort the result set of a query by one or more columns, and it comes with its own set of rules and behaviors: D . Column aliases can be used In the ORDER BY clause: True, column aliases that are specified in the SELECT clause can be used in the ORDER BY clause to refer to the columns to sort the results by. E . In a character sort, the values are case-sensitive: Oracle sorts results in case-sensitive order by default when using the ORDER BY clause with character columns, unless otherwise specified by the NLS_SORT parameter. Reference: Oracle Database SQL Language Reference 12c, which provides details on sorting query results using ORDER BY.