DBMS is MySQL 5. I have a report that is generated for cities within several states. The states are designated by their two letter postal abbreviations and are in a certain order. For example:
1. NY 2. CA 3. FL I would like the records of the report sorted by the original state order, then by city name. I can pull the data for the report in single query, but can't figure out how to maintain the state order. Turning the state list above into a comma delimmited list (NY,CA,FL), my query looks something like: SELECT * FROM cities WHERE state IN (<cfqueryparam value="#states#" list="yes">) ORDER BY state, city Except that I lose the original order of the state list. There are a number of workarounds, such as looping through the states and doing one query for each. Or run the single query shown above and then in a similar manner loop through the states and do a QoQ for each. Is there a way to do this in a single query? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:318510 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
