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Re: ORDER BY 'DK', 'DE', DESC?

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Adam Ruth Re: ORDER BY 'DK', 'DE', DESC?
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On May 20, 2004, at 11:20 AM, Stephan Szabo wrote:

> On Tue, 11 May 2004, [ISO-8859-1] Victor Spång Arthursson wrote:
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>> Hi!
>>
>> I would like to know if it's possible to give a priority order of how
>> to sort the returning rows?
>>
>> Like for example to order every row with a field language = DK first,
>> then the rows with field language = *DE' and last the other languages,
>> ordered alphabetically…?
>
> Well, I think you can do something like:
>
> ORDER BY (language = 'DK'), (language = 'DE'), language
>
> (or you could possibly condense the first two into one with case)

Due to the sorting of boolean values, you'd need:

ORDER BY language = 'DK' desc, language like '%DE' desc, language;


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Thread : ORDER BY 'DK', 'DE', DESC?
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Victor Spång Arthursson Hi! I would like to know if it's possible to give a priority order of how to sort the returning...
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Stephan Szabo Well, I think you can do something like: ORDER BY (language =3D 'DK'), (language =3D 'DE'),...
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Stephan Szabo s, Yep, someday I'll remember that 0 is less than 1. ;)...
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Greg Stark Personally I find something like this clearer: ORDER BY (CASE WHEN language = 'DK' THEN 1 WHEN...
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Adam Ruth Due to the sorting of boolean values, you'd need: ORDER BY language = 'DK' desc, language like...
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Adam Ruth I only remember it after I try it once and wonder why my trues are at the bottom! Adam Ruth
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