RE: [SQL] Order by email address by domain ?

2001-05-11 Thread Maxim Maletsky
here's an idea: if you would have all emails stored in the reverse order: moc.niamod@resu then all you would need is simple 'ORDER BY email'. Also, in this way, emails like [EMAIL PROTECTED] would be perfectly ordered. Is that a crazy thought? If not yet then: why not to add an

Re: [SQL] Order by email address by domain ?

2001-05-10 Thread Frank Bax
Why is everyone else suggesting new functions? This works (in 6.5.3): ORDER BY lower(substring(email from position('@' in email)+1 )), lower(email) remove the lower() functions if you don't need them (I had mixed case addresses). I am guessing/assuming that it's cheaper to just use entire