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At least in MariaDB 10.5.8, NULL is ordered as lowest value.
Therefore,
ORDER BY -updated_at
and
ORDER BY updated_at DESC
are not the same if the updated_at (datetime) column contains some NULL values: The first one will sort NULLs first, the second one sorts NULL values last, while both sort actual datetimes in descending order.