On May 20, 2004, at 12:19 PM, Stephan Szabo wrote:


On Thu, 20 May 2004, Adam Ruth wrote:


On May 20, 2004, at 11:20 AM, Stephan Szabo wrote:

On Tue, 11 May 2004, [ISO-8859-1] Victor Spång Arthursson wrote:

Hi!

I would like to know if it's possible to give a priority order of how
to sort the returning rows?


Like for example to order every row with a field language = DK first,
then the rows with field language = *DE' and last the other languages,
ordered alphabetically…?

Well, I think you can do something like:

ORDER BY (language = 'DK'), (language = 'DE'), language

(or you could possibly condense the first two into one with case)

Due to the sorting of boolean values, you'd need:

ORDER BY language = 'DK' desc, language like '%DE' desc, language;

Yep, someday I'll remember that 0 is less than 1. ;)


I only remember it after I try it once and wonder why my trues are at the bottom!


Adam Ruth

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