diff --git a/lib/ProxySQL_Admin.cpp b/lib/ProxySQL_Admin.cpp
index 86dc5ef09..7e8a647e5 100644
--- a/lib/ProxySQL_Admin.cpp
+++ b/lib/ProxySQL_Admin.cpp
@@ -1933,7 +1933,7 @@ void admin_session_handler(MySQL_Session *sess, ProxySQL_Admin *pa, PtrSize_t *p
 	if ((query_no_space_length>17) && (!strncasecmp("SHOW TABLES FROM ", query_no_space, 17))) {
 		strA=query_no_space+17;
 		strAl=strlen(strA);
-		strB=(char *)"SELECT name AS tables FROM %s.sqlite_master WHERE type='table' AND name NOT IN ('sqlite_sequence')";
+		strB=(char *)"SELECT name AS tables FROM %s.sqlite_master WHERE type='table' AND name NOT IN ('sqlite_sequence') ORDER BY name";
 		strBl=strlen(strB);
 		int l=strBl+strAl-2;
 		char *b=(char *)l_alloc(l+1);