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Re: [Help] How to sort like this with SQL?

From: Mark Saltzman <saltzman_at_ADMIN.UWEX.EDU>
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 1996 07:58:28 CDT
Message-Id: <9601221414.AA10111@alice.jcc.com>


> I don't understand why you would want the value that falls between
> 1.1 and 1.2 (1.11) to be sorted after 1.5.

You are interperting these as points on the number line, but sometimes people use this notation to reflect sequences. So 1.11 is the 11th item rather than a number between 1.1 and 1.2.

HTH Mark Saltzman, Assistant Director
Information Systems, University of Wisconsin-Extension 432 North Lake Street, Madison, Wisconsin 53706-1498 TEL: 608.263.3084 / FAX: 608.262.2343 Received on Mon Jan 22 1996 - 09:14:14 CST

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