Its a stored procedure, and the INTEGER values need to be casted to a string
as all values need to have the same data type.

I've found the solution; I am padding the string with zeros. I think it is
affecting the execution time drastically though (talking about 500,000
records). Will do some more reseach, any better suggestions would be
appreciated.


On 4/14/07, Simon Haddon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Why do you have to cast at all.  This is only in your order by clause.  If
> you have to do it this way then can you build you SQL dynamically using
> coldfusion or whatever you are using to add in the order by rather than
> using a case statement?
>
> On 14/04/07, Taco Fleur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I am using a dynamic order by statement;
> >
> > ORDER BY CASE @sort
> >          WHEN 0 THEN CAST( COALESCE( t2.RANK, 0 ) + COALESCE( t3.RANK, 0
> > ) AS CHAR( 5 ) )
> >          WHEN 1 THEN C.title
> >          WHEN 2 THEN CAST( CEILING( [dbo].[fn_calculateDistance] (
> > @fromLatitude, @fromLongitude, L.latitude, L.longitude ) ) AS CHAR( 9 )
> > )
> >          WHEN 3 THEN ( C.locality + ' ' + C.state )
> >          WHEN 4 THEN CAST( C.price AS CHAR( 10 ) ) END ASC
> >
> > The problem is with the numeric values, I have to cast them as a string
> > (to make the dynamic order by work), but in the results 114km
> > obviously is not between 1137km and 1144km.
> >
> > Anyone any ideas on this?
> > Thanks in advance.
> > --
> > Taco Fleur - http://www.pacificfox.com.au
> > Web Design, Web development, Graphic Design and Complete Internet
> > Solutions
> > an industry leader with commercial IT experience since 1994 …
> >
> >
> >
>
>
> --
> Cheers
> Simon Haddon
> >
>


-- 
Taco Fleur - http://www.pacificfox.com.au
Web Design, Web development, Graphic Design and Complete Internet Solutions
an industry leader with commercial IT experience since 1994 …

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