diff --git a/test/box_big/sql.result b/test/box_big/sql.result
index 2a54366b8402586cac4aea6d8c0672d9f4bbead4..edd17c839a35967ff17488eaaec2f02062072bb1 100644
--- a/test/box_big/sql.result
+++ b/test/box_big/sql.result
@@ -205,8 +205,8 @@ delete from t1 where k0='key3'
 Delete OK, 1 row affected
 select * from t5 where k1='part1'
 Found 3 tuples:
-['11234567', 'part1', 'part2']
 ['01234567', 'part1', 'part2']
+['11234567', 'part1', 'part2']
 ['21234567', 'part1', 'part2_a']
 select * from t5 where k1='part2'
 No match
diff --git a/test/box_big/sql.test b/test/box_big/sql.test
index 1cd696f5ec687e121e3804b35e28c00beb069432..10a35a1e86fd27787fd3b6170afc1cb477437bef 100644
--- a/test/box_big/sql.test
+++ b/test/box_big/sql.test
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 # encoding: tarantool
 #
+sql.sort = True
+
 print """#
 # A test case for Bug#729758
 # "SELECT fails with a disjunct and small LIMIT"
@@ -11,9 +13,7 @@ exec sql "insert into t0 values ('Roe', 'Richard')"
 exec sql "insert into t0 values ('Woe', 'Richard')"
 exec sql "insert into t0 values ('Major', 'Tomas')"
 exec sql "insert into t0 values ('Kytes', 'Tomas')"
-sql.sort = True
 exec sql "select * from t0 where k1='Richard' or k1='Tomas' or k1='Tomas' limit 5"
-sql.sort = False
 
 print """#
 # A test case for Bug#729879
@@ -74,12 +74,10 @@ exec admin "lua for k, v in box.space[5]:pairs() do print(v) end"
 exec sql "select * from t5 where k0='01234567'"
 exec sql "select * from t5 where k0='11234567'"
 exec sql "select * from t5 where k0='21234567'"
-sql.sort = True
 exec sql "select * from t5 where k1='part1'"
 exec sql "select * from t5 where k1='part1_a'"
 exec sql "select * from t5 where k1='part_none'"
 exec sql "call box.select('5', '1', 'part1', 'part2')"
-sql.sort = False 
 exec sql "insert into t7 values (1, 'hello')"
 exec sql "insert into t7 values (2, 'brave')"
 exec sql "insert into t7 values (3, 'new')"
@@ -151,11 +149,9 @@ exec sql "insert into t4 values (12, 'duplicate three')"
 exec sql "insert into t4 values (13, 'duplicate three')"
 exec sql "insert into t4 values (14, 'duplicate three')"
 exec sql "insert into t4 values (15, 'duplicate three')"
-sql.sort = True
 exec sql "select * from t4 where k1='duplicate one'"
 exec sql "select * from t4 where k1='duplicate two'"
 exec sql "select * from t4 where k1='duplicate three'"
-sql.sort = False
 exec sql "delete from t4 where k0=1"
 exec sql "delete from t4 where k0=2"
 exec sql "delete from t4 where k0=3"
@@ -186,4 +182,5 @@ exec sql "delete from t4 where k0=1"
 exec sql "delete from t4 where k0=2"
 exec sql "delete from t4 where k0=3"
 
+sql.sort = False
 # vim: syntax=python