Thomas offered you a working solution which will need only one step.
You will get ordered ref cursor as the result. You can also do it by using
your static query as inline view for your ordering query, something like
this:
select * from (your static query) [order by ...]
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"Peter Mutsaers" <plm_at_gmx.li> wrote in message news:uwuvbtpme.fsf_at_mutsaers.com...
> >> "John" == John Russell <netnews2_at_johnrussell.mailshell.com> writes:
>
> John> You can use something like
>
> John> ORDER BY DECODE(test_expression, case1, column1, case2, column2,
> John> case3, column3, ...)
>
> Yes, but in my case, I have to order on multiple columns (for some
> inputs) and some of the coumns are asc, some are desc. Seems quite
> impossible with the order by decode construct.
>
> If only I could do it in two steps, first creating a ref cursor using
> a static query, then using a small dynamic query that uses this ref
> cursor and adds the (dynamic) order by stuff.
>
>
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