On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 9:11 AM, Andrew Gatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have a table of music artist names which i'd like to output in order. > Normally i just use: > > select * from artists order by artist_name; > > What i'd really like to do is order the artists by name but ignore any > "the" or "the," preceding it. > iTunes and iPods solve this problem by having two of each field: Title / Sort Title, Artist / Sort Artist, Album / Sort Album. The "Sort" versions are populated by stripping things like "The" and whatnot. You can keep them in sync with triggers, or application logic, or whatever. -- -- Stevie-O Real programmers use COPY CON PROGRAM.EXE _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
