Re: SQL Order Question

You might be able to achieve what you want using the fact that Order By
sorts false before true, so:

Order By not(contractid = 'BTS'), contractid ASC

Regards,
George

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Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2006 1:33 PM
Subject: [NOVICE] SQL Order Question

> hi all,
>
> i want to order contract numbers id ascending order,
> with the exception of 'BTS' that I want to display
> first. the contract numbers are numeric and 'BTS' is
> text. the numeric values come first when i sort in
> asc order - as expected. how can i get BTS (id = 0)
> to come up as the first value in my query?
>
> tia...
>
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