Re: Order By Date Question

On Tuesday 08 September 2009 6:29:28 am BlackMage wrote:
> I have a question about ordering by date. I have a table with two fields
> and some date
>
> Name(character varying) | Event_Date(timestamp with timezone)
> A | 2009-09-10 5:30:00
> B | 2009-09-10- 00:00:00
> C | 2009-09-11 17:30:00
> D | 2009-09-11 07:30:00
>
>
> I want to order by date and then by name, so I want the result A,B,C,D. The
> problem is when I do a 'SELECT * FROM table_name ORDER BY Event_Date,
> DESC', it includes the actual time (HH:MM:SS) so the order comes out
> B,A,D,C.
>
> So what I am asking is how do I order only by the date? YYYY-MM-DD?
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Cast the timestamp to date:

SELECT * FROM table_name ORDER BY Event_Date::date DESC

Though to guarantee the order you want you will have to do:

SELECT * FROM table_name ORDER BY Event_Date::date, Name
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Adrian Klaver
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