Hi Scott, This kind of ordering thing has come up before and there's never a great answer I don't think.
You could try this ORDER BY ORDER BY l.age + 0.0, l.age, l.date But I think that might cause sorting problems if age has leading 0s. Maybe not... Matt ----- Original Message ----- From: "Scott Haneda" Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003 5:34 PM Subject: Order by a number not leading in zero > I have the following... > > tSql = "SELECT l.team, l.link, lc.category, l.age, l.date > FROM league AS l > INNER JOIN league_category AS lc > ON l.category = lc.id > WHERE lc.id = " & prepSQL(tConn, id) & " AND l.status = '1' > ORDER BY l.age, l.date"; > > L.age has data in it as varchar() where there are some without a leading > zero. > > Rsults end up like > 10U > 11U > 12U > 5U > 6U > 7U > > I would like to order those as > 5U > 6U > 7U > 10U > 11U > 12U > > Thanks for the help. -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
