On Fri, 27 Dec 2002 13:11:42 -0500, Asendorf, John wrote:
>SELECT Dealers.*, SQRT(POW((2285-Zips.North),2)+POW((4760-Zips.West),2)) AS
>Distance
>FROM Dealers
>INNER JOIN Zips ON Dealers.Zip = Zips.Zip
>ORDER BY POW((2285-Zips.North),2)+POW((4760-Zips.West)),2)
Off the top of my head have you tried not calculating the order
by field again? Something like:
SELECT Dealers.*, POW((2285-Zips.North),2)+POW((4760-Zips.West),2) as
L, SQRT(L) AS Distance
FROM Dealers
INNER JOIN Zips ON Dealers.Zip = Zips.Zip
ORDER BY L
(or should it be order by Distance?)
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