Re: help with query: advanced ORDER BY...

On Jan 15, 2006, at 11:15 , <me(at)alternize(dot)com> <me(at)alternize(dot)com> wrote:

> the movie schedules for theatres normally contains the information
> theater_id, screen_date, screen_time, screen_number, movie_name and
> should be outputed accordingly. it now happens to have some cinema
> multiplex owners who for some reasons do not want to publish the
> screen_number to the public - but the internal data we receive does
> contain that information.

Something you may consider doing is creating a view that masks the
screen_number in those cases, something like

create view schedule_public_view as
select theater_id
, screen_date
, screen_time
, case when no_screen_number then 0 else screen_number end as
screen_number
, movie_name
from schedules;

Michael Glaesemann
grzm myrealbox com