[Cialug] Alphabetical Sort

[Scott Yates]

Sorry, I missed the L in SQl.  lol

If it is an option, you might consider creating a new field and running an
SQL update on it to populate it with sort-formatted numbers derived from
the problem field.  A SQL Insert/update trigger might be used to keep it in
sync.

This is off the top of my head, and there are a lot of domain specific
things to think about, but this might point you in a more fruitful
direction.


On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 6:55 PM, Kenneth Younger <kyounger at gmail.com> wrote:

> Which flavor of SQL are you using?
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 5:35 PM, Patrick Mcgillan <
> patrick.mcgillan at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I have this problem where a SQl field contains characters like this in
> > different records.
> >
> > 1.4.1
> > 1.4.10
> > 1.4.2
> > 1.5.1
> > 1.5.10
> > 1.5.11
> > 1.5.12
> > 1.5.2
> > 1.5.3
> > Trouble is, 1.4.2 should sort out before 1.4.10, but because it is a
> > character field it doesn't. Now that makes perfectly good sense to me,
> but
> > not the customer. I can't sort on ID as the entries are randomly done. I
> > sense that this problem has been solved before, but can't put my finger
> on
> > it.
> >
> > Can anybody point me in the proper direction.
> >
> > Patrick
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