diff --git a/CHANGES.rst b/CHANGES.rst
index 8b5eebb..16a428e 100644
--- a/CHANGES.rst
+++ b/CHANGES.rst
@@ -8,8 +8,9 @@ Here you can see the full list of changes between each SQLAlchemy-Utils release.
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 
 - Made assert_* functions automatically rollback session
-- Fix alias handling in has_unique_index
-- Fix alias handling in has_index
+- Fixed alias handling in has_unique_index
+- Fixed alias handling in has_index
+- Fixed alias handling in make_order_by_deterministic
 
 
 0.27.4 (2014-10-23)
diff --git a/sqlalchemy_utils/functions/sort_query.py b/sqlalchemy_utils/functions/sort_query.py
index 15004f7..4bbc55c 100644
--- a/sqlalchemy_utils/functions/sort_query.py
+++ b/sqlalchemy_utils/functions/sort_query.py
@@ -184,8 +184,12 @@ def make_order_by_deterministic(query):
         order_by_func = sa.asc
 
     # Queries that are ordered by an already
-    if isinstance(column, sa.Column) and has_unique_index(column):
-        return query
+    if isinstance(column, sa.Column):
+        try:
+            if has_unique_index(column):
+                return query
+        except TypeError:
+            return query
 
     base_table = get_tables(query._entities[0])[0]
     query = query.order_by(
diff --git a/tests/functions/test_make_order_by_deterministic.py b/tests/functions/test_make_order_by_deterministic.py
index 4c3c08e..2663e48 100644
--- a/tests/functions/test_make_order_by_deterministic.py
+++ b/tests/functions/test_make_order_by_deterministic.py
@@ -83,3 +83,9 @@ class TestMakeOrderByDeterministic(TestCase):
         query = self.session.query(self.User)
         query = make_order_by_deterministic(query)
         assert 'ORDER BY' not in str(query)
+
+    def test_alias(self):
+        alias = sa.orm.aliased(self.User.__table__)
+        query = self.session.query(alias).order_by(alias.c.name)
+        query = make_order_by_deterministic(query)
+        assert str(query).endswith('ORDER BY user_1.name')