Socrata was acquired by Tyler Technologies in 2018 and is now the Data and Insights division of Tyler. The platform is still powered by the same software formerly known as Socrata but you will see references to Data & Insights going forward.

The orderingSpecifier Option

You probably don’t want to set this option unless you’re finding your query to be especially slow. For better performance, you can set "orderingSpecifier": "discard".

The purpose of this option is to specify how a parent view’s ORDER BYs interact with a derived view you’re querying.

Value Is Default Description
total yes Make sure that both the parent and derived views’ rows are ordered
no_preserve   Ignore the parents’ ORDER BYs when determining row order
discard   Ignore both the parents’ and derived view’s ORDER BYs