Bump.... Mysql 4, this has been bothering me for some time now...
I made a mailing list archiver, I "thread" discussions by subject. I chose to not use message-id's since so many people hijack threads. In most cases, I ORDER BY id, which is simply a auto-inc that is set as they come in, in order via email. Occasionally, messages will be out of order due to email delivery issues. I tried date stamping them, but users clocks are so messed up that never panned out :-) Given this case: Subject ID RE: Order by with one exception 1 RE: Order by with one exception 2 RE: Order by with one exception 3 Order by with one exception 4 RE: Order by with one exception 5 RE: Order by with one exception 6 RE: Order by with one exception 7 As you can see, these are in correct order, but in this case, I want to push the one without the Re: to the top. I can not just order by subject, id, since not a subject could start with a letter after "R". Suggestions? -- ------------------------------------------------------------- Scott Haneda Tel: 415.898.2602 http://www.newgeo.com Fax: 313.557.5052 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Novato, CA U.S.A. -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
