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April 29th, 2008, 05:24 AM

ctmas

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T-SQL - Order by

Hi,

Is it possible to give a value to the column name specified in the order by clause..

something like this..

select col1,col2 from tab1
order by col1 like 'ti%'

April 29th, 2008, 07:03 AM

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Originally Posted by ctmas

Hi,

Is it possible to give a value to the column name specified in the order by clause..

something like this..

select col1,col2 from tab1
order by col1 like 'ti%'

You can do this:

Code:

select col1, col2
from tab1
order by case when col1 like 'ti%' then 0 else 1 end

This will force values like ti% to the top and all other values will follow in alphabetical order.

But why don't you do this?

Code:

select col1, col2
from tab1
where col1 like 'ti%'
order by col1

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