You can use FIELD in the ORDER BY. See pp. 330 of the MySQL Cookbook, or FIELD in the MySQL docs:
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/string-functions.html
mysql> SELECT * FROM test; +------+-------+ | name | month | +------+-------+ | foo | Mar | | bar | Jan | | baz | May | | quux | Nov | | qaax | Apr | | qiix | Dec | +------+-------+ 6 rows in set (0.00 sec)
mysql> SELECT * FROM test
-> ORDER BY FIELD(month, 'Jan', 'Feb', 'Mar', 'Apr', 'May', 'Jun', 'Jul', 'Aug', 'Sep', 'Oct', 'Nov', 'Dec');
+------+-------+
| name | month |
+------+-------+
| bar | Jan |
| foo | Mar |
| qaax | Apr |
| baz | May |
| quux | Nov |
| qiix | Dec |
+------+-------+
6 rows in set (0.00 sec)
____________________________________________________________ Eamon Daly
----- Original Message ----- From: "N. Kavithashree" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <mysql@lists.mysql.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2005 1:19 AM
Subject: orderbymonths
hello,
is there any way so that months r ordered as that of calender year.
means . i have a month field of 3 chars. like Jan, Feb, Mar etc
when i select distinct months , the result will be displayed in the calender year month order.
but if i use order by mon then this order jan,feb,mar will go and it will order accorg to the first char of the month name.
but i want to arrnage in calender month order even when i count the stocks for each month with group by statement.
is there any option to sort with 2nd and 3rd char also like that of sql in mysql ?
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