I am trying to write a query that will sort results using one or two substrings in item number. So for example I have item numbers that start with SE0000, TS0000, N00000, W000000, etc.
So let say I want results sorted in the following order TS0000, SE0000, N00000, W00000 I have tried the following in my query but it's not sorting properly: ORDER BY FIELD(LEFT(item_number, 2) , 'TS'), FIELD(LEFT(item_number, 1) 'N','W') Any suggestions. I am using MYSQL 3.23 -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]