Hi Richard, all!
Richard Gagnon wrote:
> Sorting a varchar field alphabetically with correct numerical order help
> needed
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> I have a varchar 50 field that contains product names, which are typically
> numerical, alphabetical and punctuation thrown in. I would like to have them
> retur
I'd use a cursor loop, and parse through the string extracting the numeric
characters, convert the numeric characters to a Int to be used as a
sequence number. Insert the sequence number and the string into a temp
table, (or add seqnum to the current table) and
select from X order by seqnum.
I wo
Hi Rich,
I believe that since they are definitely considered as strings they are
sorted as such,
how can you pretend that '#2 NOV' is considered as a number?
If you cannot define a rule in the structure of the data it is
impossible to sort, not only in sql, but in life!
IF we take for granted
Sorting a varchar field alphabetically with correct numerical order help
needed
I have a varchar 50 field that contains product names, which are typically
numerical, alphabetical and punctuation thrown in. I would like to have them
returned in some sort of order that is roughly alphabetical, b
