Thanks, Josh!

I'm actually using the query to drive a LABKEY.ext.Store, which in turn gets displayed in a comboBox, as I initially pointed out.

The LABKEY.ext.Store does have a 'sort' config that needs to specify a column name (possibly preceded by an '-' for descending sort, otherwise it's ascending), but this 'sort' config seems to follow the same rules as the ORDER BY, does it not?