Re: Order By
Date: 19 Apr 2006 17:50:00 -0700
Message-ID: <1145494200.282089.324240_at_i39g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>
Chino wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I have a query where i am returning a property which is a string. I am
> trying to perform the following:
>
> *NB: Note the position of of the try_itemcode value 002240-10
Well, this is sort of an artifact of the decision to push two integers together in string form as a single attribute. In light of what you want to do, you might want to revisit that decision.
There are two widely recognized orders: numeric order for numeric types, and lexicographic order for strings. You're looking to use numeric order on two separate numeric values, but the values are conjoined in a string attribute. That isn't any kind of widely recognized order, so you DBMS won't know about it.
I can think of a few ways to approach the problem.
- Revisit the decision to push these two separate numbers together (previously mentioned.)
- Give up on having the dbms do the sorting, and have
the application do it. This is probably the most expedient
but perhaps least satisfying solution.
- If your DBMS supports it, you could try to order by the result of some function of the itemcode. Sorta like
select ... order by first_part(item_code), second_part(item_code);
HTH Marshall Received on Thu Apr 20 2006 - 02:50:00 CEST