> Or put the members alphabetically in the enum definition in the first
> place ...
Better yet - drop the ENUM al together :-)
Use a lookup table.
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Martijn Tonies
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> felix
>
> On 09/06/2005, Eric Bergen wrote:
>
>
> > It's not a bug at all. You just hit one of the features of enum :)
> >
> > If you want to order alphabetically as you describe cast the enum
> > name to a string like this select col from t order by concat(my_enum);
> >
> > -Eric
> >
> > Daevid Vincent wrote:
> >
> > > Please tell me there is a way to fix this "bug" in mysql Ver 12.22
> > > Distrib 4.0.18, for pc-linux-gnu (i686)
> > >
> > > I have a column defined like so:
> > > Type
> > > enum('Schedule','Report','Admin','Search','General','License','Acces
> > > s')
> > >
> > > If I SELECT, and ORDER BY Type, it is ordering in the order defined
> > > by the the ENUM, not alphabetically as a sane person would expect.
> > > UGH!
> > >
> > > Please tell me there is a fix or work around.
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