Dave Rudolf wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>Suppose that I have a column in a table, and I want to sort it so that
>certain values come first, but the sorting is not lexographical. For
>example, if I have a rediculously simple table, that has only one column,
>like so:
>
>'A'
>'B'
>'C'
>'D'
>'E'
>
>I want to sort the table so that Bs and Es come first, like so:
>
>'B'
>'E'
>'A'
>'C'
>'D'
>
>Is there some way to do such a thing?
>
>
>
>Dave
>
>
>
SELECT col
FROM table
ORDER BY decode(col, 'B', 1, 'E', 2, 'A', 3, 'C', 4, 'D', 5, 999);
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Received on Thu Nov 13 2003 - 12:35:17 CST
