Re: [sqlite] ORDER BY and NULL values

[Igor Tandetnik]

"January Weiner" 
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> default sorting with ORDER BY puts the NULL values at the beginning.
> How can I change this behaviour?

select * from myTable
order by (b is null), b;

Igor Tandetnik 



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Re: [sqlite] ORDER BY and NULL values

[Stephen Oberholtzer]

select * from MyTable
order by case when b is null then 0 else 1 end, b

On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 3:53 PM, January Weiner wrote:

> Hello,
>
> default sorting with ORDER BY puts the NULL values at the beginning.
> How can I change this behaviour? I.e., instead of
>
> a   b
> -   
> x  NULL
> y  0
> z  2
>
> I would like to have
>
> a  b
> 
> y  0
> z  2
> x  NULL
>
> Explanation: I have a table with e-values (expected number of
> something). A lower e-value means a more significant search hit. No
> evalue at all means that hit was not found, so that the missing
> e-values should be reported at the end (unfortunately, I want to have
> them reported, but just not at the beginning).
>
> Thank you in advance,
>
> j.
>
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