Re: order of results

Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 14:23:00 +0100,
> Gregor Rot <zara4tustra(at)yahoo(dot)com> wrote:
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>i have a table called "people" (name:varchar, lastname:varchar).
>>
>>i do a select on it:
>>
>>select * from people where name like '%n1%' or lastname like '%l1%'.
>>
>>i would like the results in this order:
>>
>>first the results that satisfy only the (name like '%n1%') condition,
>>then the ones that satisfy only the (lastname like '%l1%') condition and
>>last the results that satisfy both conditions.
>>
>>Is this possible in only one SQL?
>>(note that the search conditions n1 and l1 differ from search to search.
>
>
> Yes. You can order by true/false results from conditions to get the
> results in the desired order.

Thank you - sorry, but how do you do that?

Tnx,
Gregor