In the last episode (Jul 09), CVIOG at UGA said:
> I have a fairly basic question: How do I sort
> numerically? Normally when I query using "ORDER BY
> (field)", it orders by the first digit (i.e. 1, 10, 2,
> 21, 3, 32) rather than by number (1, 2, 3, 10, 21,
> 32).
Either alter the table to make that field an INTEGER column, or "ORDER
BY field+0" to force mysql to internally convert the field to a number
before sorting.
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Dan Nelson
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