It looks like your field is a text field rather than BIGINT or some
numerical field. Changing the field type should solve your problem.
Serge.
- Original Message -
From: CVIOG at UGA [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2002 4:22 PM
Subject: Basic Q's:
Here is the solution I posted about t months ago. I would also add, this solution can
handle both text and numbers in the same field...:
my boss figured out a nice solution to this
ORDER BY IF(ABS(Item) 0,LPAD(Item,9,'0'),Item)
This will pad numbers ( ok it might not do so hot with DECIMAL,
In the last episode (Jul 09), CVIOG at UGA said:
I have a fairly basic question: How do I sort
numerically? Normally when I query using ORDER BY
(field), it orders by the first digit (i.e. 1, 10, 2,
21, 3, 32) rather than by number (1, 2, 3, 10, 21,
32).
Either alter the table to make that
