> I have a bunch of IP numbers stored in a VarChar field in SQL7. When I
> sort them, it sorts like text, as it should, with not great results. Is
> there a quick and easy way to get the IP numbers to sort like a number?
Pad out each octet with 0's. 206.168.47.6 => 206.168.047.006. Create
another field in the table used just for sorting if you don't want to modify
the original field. These should sort correctly.
Jim
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