Andrew Gatt wrote:
> I have a table of music artist names which i'd like to output in order.
> Normally i just use:
>
> select * from artists order by artist_name;
>
> What i'd really like to do is order the artists by name but ignore any
> "the" or "the," preceding it.
>
You could try something like this:
select * from t
order by
case
when lower(substr(artist, 1, 3)) = 'the' then substr(artist, 4)
when lower(substr(artist, 1, 4)) = 'the,' then substr(artist, 5)
else artist
end;
HTH
Dennis Cote
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