What's the execute order of the different parts of a SQL select statement?

Question

What's the execute order of the different parts of a SQL select statement? Such as
distinct
from
order by
group by
having
multiline function(count, avg, max, min...)
top(sql server) or limit(mysql)
other parts

Does the different databases have the same execution order? Great thanks.

Answer 1

Have a look at

SQL SERVER – Logical Query Processing Phases – Order of Statement Execution

1. FROM
2. ON
3. OUTER
4. WHERE
5. GROUP BY
6. CUBE | ROLLUP
7. HAVING
8. SELECT
9. DISTINCT
10. ORDER BY
11. TOP

Also, for some good info see Logical Query Processing

Answer 2

The above answer addresses the question but there is one exception to the above mentioned order

when you have

select top n ............

order by

Then, order by will be executed before select. ( the entries are ordered first and then the top n entries are selected)