Re: SQL Order Question

From: Richard Broersma Jr <rabroersma(at)yahoo(dot)com>
To: operationsengineer1(at)yahoo(dot)com, Andrej Ricnik-Bay <andrej(dot)groups(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: "pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: SQL Order Question
Date: 2006-05-04 19:40:21
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> > On 5/5/06, operationsengineer1(at)yahoo(dot)com
> > <operationsengineer1(at)yahoo(dot)com> wrote:
> > > 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?
> > I'm not sure I fully understand the structure of
> > your
> > data ... do BTS and the numeric contract numbers
> > appear in the same column?>
> yes.

Perhaps you could union two selects together?

Regards,

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