Re: order by question

On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 3:50 AM, Tony Liao<tonyliao(at)yuehetone(dot)com> wrote:
> Hi,All
>        for example,I have a query as this
>          select id,product_id from table_name where product_id in
> (6,3,4,10,7) order by .....
>        the results I want to get as bellow:
> id................product_id......................
> 33...............6...................................
> 40...............6..................................
> 12...............3....................................
> 25...............4.................................
> 10...............4................................
> 17...............10.................................
> 43................7...................................
>           any Idea? thanks

I take it you want the set sorted by product_id order of 6,3,4,10 ???

order by
case when product_id = 6 then 1 when product_id=3 then 2 when
product_id=4 then 3 when product_id=10 then 4 else product_id+1000
end;