Let's hope no one has a last name starting with any of the following
characters:

space ! " # $ % & ' ( ) * + , - . /

All of those fall alphabetically before 0.

:)

~Brad

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: RE: Order By question
From: "Paul Alkema" <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, June 30, 2010 3:06 pm
To: cf-talk <[email protected]>


I secont John's SQL. To expand explain further see my example.

SELECT *
FROM folks
ORDER BY CASE
 WHEN last_name = 'Smith'
 OR last_name = 'Jones' THEN 0
 ELSE last_name
 END 



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