Suppose I have a large table with a small-cardinality CATEGORY column (say, 
categories 1..5).  I need to sort by an arbitrary (i.e. user-specified) mapping 
of CATEGORY, something like this:

 1 => 'z'
 2 => 'a'
 3 => 'b'
 4 => 'w'
 5 => 'h'

So when I get done, the sort order should be 2,3,5,4,1.

I could create a temporary table with the category-to-key mapping, but is there 
any way to do this in a single SQL statement?

Thanks,
Craig

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