try
ORDER BY (Category = 'Other'), Category, Subcategory
It should work, (I hope ^_-;;;)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeff Shipman - SysProg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, April 20, 2001 8:38 PM
Subject: complicated query
> I would like to do something similar to an ORDER BY
> in one of my select statements, but I'mt not sure
> how to do something as complicated as this:
>
> I have two columns, category and subcategory, that
> I am retrieving. I would like category and subcategory
> to be sorted alphabetically. This is easy with an
> 'ORDER BY 1 2', but I would like categories that
> are named 'other' to be put off until the end. So,
> I'd get something like this:
>
> abcd
> ghikj
> zzzzz
> other
>
> Is there a way to do this type of query? Thanks in
> advance.
>
> Jeff Shipman E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Systems Programmer Phone: (505) 835-5748
> NMIMT Computer Center http://www.nmt.edu/~jeff
>
>
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