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AskSQLTeam
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 Posted - 2005-04-26 : 07:50:34
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| Prudhvi writes "How would I go about ordering results using a specified order. Say I have non-unique ids, (23, 12, 98, 3) and I need to return rows that contain these ids in the order I specified above. How could I do this without using any extra queries or sub-queries or insert/retrieve from temp tables" |
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rockmoose
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Posted - 2005-04-26 : 08:47:34
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| You can do:...ORDER BY CASE id WHEN 23 THEN 1 WHEN 12 THEN 2 WHEN 98 THEN 3 WHEN 3 THEN 4 ELSE 5 END, idrockmoose |
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user-defined order by