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sandeepkashaboina
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Posted - 2011-09-16 : 11:17:01

After executing the query I got the following data:

select pkid, firstname from customer order by firstname

pkid firstname
4 Name1
5 Name2
3 Name3
1 Sandeep
6 Name3

But I need the result as following:

pkid firstname
1 Sandeep
4 Name1
5 Name2
3 Name3
6 Name3

'Sandeep' should always come first:
something like: select pkid, firstname from customer order by 'sandeep', firstname

Help needed !!
Thanks.

ehorn
Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker

1632 Posts

Posted - 2011-09-16 : 11:21:10

Hello,

Perhaps you could use a CASE statement in the ORDER BY clause. Something like;

ORDER BY CASE WHEN firstname = 'SanDeep' THEN 'A' ELSE firstname END ASC, pkid ASC

HTH.

russell
Pyro-ma-ni-yak

5072 Posts

Posted - 2011-09-16 : 11:23:26

order by case when firstname = 'Sandeep' then 0 else 1 end, firstname

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