Martijn Tonies wrote:
Hi,
==
I have an ID field in my database...it reads like this
ASS1
ASS23
ASS4
ASS10
ASS6
when i'm retrieving the data by taking ORDER BY clause it is sorting like
this
ASS1
ASS10
ASS23
ASS4
ASS6
means its only sorting by the 4 the character. i want the sorting to be done
like the following
==
No, it means it's sorting by alphabet, not by the 4th character.
ASS10 comes after ASS1, makes perfect sense.
==
ASS1
ASS4
ASS6
ASS10
ASS23
Solutions are greatly appreciated
==
What you want, is that the sorting acts like to ignore "ASS" and
use the number behind it as an integer.
Perhaps you can cut off the first 3 characters, cast the rest to
an Integer and order by that?
SELECT *
FROM tablename
ORDER BY ((SUBSTRING(columnToSort FROM 4)) + 0) as numberpart
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