Re: Sorting numbers on a VARCHAR2 field

Hi-

Try following stmt. It might work.

Assuming that column width is 10.......

select column1 from table1 order by lpad(column1,10,null);

Hope this helps.

Thanks

In article <01c04789$960e8700$db671eac_at_icwkcheah>,   "Greg Wong" <gregory.wong_at_clear.co.nz> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I want to sort a field that contains numbers but when I do a order by
 in
> the SQL query it sorts them by their ASCII values rather than their
 face
> value..ie the numbers appear in this order : 1,10,11,2,20,21
>
> I could can the field's datatype to a number but some of the values in
 this
> field are also alphanumeric.
>
> Is there a way to get around this???
>

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