Say I've got three tables for the members of an organization and its Board
of Directors. Let's say there are approximately ten board positions. I
want to be able to do a query and have an "ad hoc" ordering of the positions
for display on a page. For example:
1. President - John Doe
2. Vice President - Jane Jones
3. Secretary - Bob Smith
4. Treasurer - Neil Jones
etc.
Tables:
Members
--------------------
MemberID
Name
BoardPositions
---------------------
BoardPositionID
Description
Board
---------------------
BoardID
MemberID
BoardPositionID
I could add a 'sortorder' field to the Board table, but I don't think this
should be in the data. Rather, I'd like to be able to specify the order
when I do the query in my CF template. Is there any means in SQL to do
something like:
SELECT Members.Name, BoardPositions.Description
FROM Board b, BoardPositions p, Members m
WHERE b.MemberID = m.MemberID
AND b.BoardPositionsID = p.BoardPositionsID
ORDER BY ('President','Vice President', ...)
Thanks,
Jim
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