"P Kishor" asked...

>I don't understand your question at all.

I will answer it at the end.

> On 2/7/08, jose isaias cabrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> Greetings.
>>
>> I would like to have the results of a select be returned sorted in an
>> specific way.  Let me show you what I mean:
>>
>> sqlite> SELECT PSubClass FROM LSOpenJobs WHERE subProjID = 2190 GROUP BY
>
> But, first... why are you using GROUP BY above when you have no
> aggregate function (Count, Max, Min, Sum, etc.) in your query?

Because of this:

sqlite> SELECT PSubClass FROM LSOpenJobs WHERE subProjID = 2190;
Pre-Proc
Post-Proc
DOC-Trans
DTP
Pre-Proc
Pre-Proc
Pre-Proc
Pre-Proc
Pre-Proc
Post-Proc
Post-Proc
Post-Proc
Post-Proc
Post-Proc
DOC-Trans
DOC-Trans
DOC-Trans
DOC-Trans
DOC-Trans
DTP
DTP
DTP
DTP
DTP
PM
PM
PM
PM
PM
PM
sqlite>


>
>> PSubClass;
>> DOC-Trans
>> DTP
>> PM
>> Post-Proc
>> Pre-Proc
>> sqlite>
>>
>> What I would like is to have the SELECT result be,
>>
>> Pre-Proc
>> Post-Proc
>> DOC-Trans
>> DTP
>> PM
>>
>> is this possible?  Yes, I know I can sort it in the program, but how can
>> I
>> get this special sort from the DB?
>>
>
> What is the logic above? Without you telling us why Pre-Doc is before
> Post-Proc is before DOC-Trans, and so on, how can we guess what your
> logic is for the sort? In other words, please explain what makes the
> above sort "special"?

Aaah, ok.  I am preparing an html file and in it I will list these
PSubClasses in this special logical display sequence:
1. Pre-Proc
2. Post-Proc
3. DOC-Trans
4. DTP
5. PM

I hope this explains it...

thanks,

josé

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