I have a table that contains a foreign key that can be null. When I
do a search I want to have the matches that are null appear first,
and then all other values sorted by another column. My data looks
like this:
id name
null abc
1 def
2 xyz
null zzz
7 aaa
I want to get them in this order:
null abc
null zzz
7 aaa
1 def
2 xyz
SELECT id, name FROM mytable ORDER BY ??
doing "ORDER BY id, name" will make the null values appear first, but
then the following values will be in the wrong order. I've thought
about using FIELD() in the order by, but the docs say it doesn't like
nulls. Is there some other sorting mechanism I could use?
Thanks,
Marcus
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