Thank you Igor! Now I understand. Caureus
Igor Tandetnik wrote: > > caurues <caureu...@aol.com> wrote: >> I am hoping I can get an answer to my question. I want to sort a column >> in >> ascending order, but I want null values to sort to the bottom. A simple >> ORDER BY ColumnA ASC sorts the column in ascending order with null vales >> appearing on top. The following code, however, works correctly, but I >> have >> no idea why: ORDER BY ColumnA IS NULL ASC, ColumnA ASC. > > You are not limited to sorting just by a column name - you can sort by any > expression. In particular, the expression (ColumnA IS NULL) evaluates to 0 > when the column is not null, and to 1 when it is. Then these zeros and > ones are sorted in ascending order. This has the net effect of putting > non-null values first and null values at the end. > -- > Igor Tandetnik > > _______________________________________________ > sqlite-users mailing list > sqlite-users@sqlite.org > http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users > > -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Sorting-Question-tp31378319p31383160.html Sent from the SQLite mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
