It looks like your field is a text field rather than BIGINT or some numerical field. Changing the field type should solve your problem.
Serge. ----- Original Message ----- From: "CVIOG at UGA" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2002 4:22 PM Subject: Basic Q's: Numerical Sorting > I have a fairly basic question: How do I sort > numerically? Normally when I query using "ORDER BY > (field)", it orders by the first digit (i.e. 1, 10, 2, > 21, 3, 32) rather than by number (1, 2, 3, 10, 21, > 32). > > Thanks for any help > Dave > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Sign up for SBC Yahoo! Dial - First Month Free > http://sbc.yahoo.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 > --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
