Nick, Tuesday, May 07, 2002, 12:06:31 PM, you wrote: NW> I've been searching for a solution to the following:
NW> Is there an easy way to order by date (YYYY - MM - DD), at the moment my NW> results are coming back with the *day* ordered but not the whole date NW> like this: NW> 02 02 2002 NW> 03 03 2005 NW> 18 02 2003 NW> See what I mean? What is your column type? Why you don't use ORDER BY your_date_column in the SELECT statement? It should work, but I can say you exactly because I don't know your table structure. The other causes of wrong result might be that something is not correct in your SQL statement. NW> I can't beleive there is nothing that can be done with sql about this NW> but I can't seem to find anything that will tell me how to do it so a little pointer would be smashing. NW> Many thanks... -- For technical support contracts, goto https://order.mysql.com/?ref=ensita This email is sponsored by Ensita.net http://www.ensita.net/ __ ___ ___ ____ __ / |/ /_ __/ __/ __ \/ / Victoria Reznichenko / /|_/ / // /\ \/ /_/ / /__ [EMAIL PROTECTED] /_/ /_/\_, /___/\___\_\___/ MySQL AB / Ensita.net <___/ www.mysql.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php
