I have used the CASE statement for ordering many times. It's very useful...
SELECT
myDATA,
CASE
WHEN data2 = SomeValue
THEN 0
ELSE
WHEN data2 = SomeOtherValue
THEN 1
ELSE
2
END
AS mySort
from MyTable Where myConstraints.
God Bless
Paul C. McNeil
Developer in Java, MS-SQL, MySQL, and web
The CASE function is documented in the manual
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/Control_flow_functions.html.
SELECT CASE
WHEN other_col 100 THEN 'low'
WHEN other_col BETWEEN 100 AND 1000 THEN 'medium'
WHEN other_col 1000 THEN 'high'
END AS col
FROM your_table;
Michael
Rafi
