John Almberg wrote:
>Nope. I've tried every combination I can think of of these ideas. They all
>give syntax errors. I don't think arithmatic is allowed in an ORDER BY
>clause. Doesn't even work on an INT field.
>
>-- John
>
>
Have you tried a computed column, i.e,
SELECT BLAH, 0 + BLAH as orderByColumn ORDER BY orderByColumn ASC
-Mark
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