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From Robert Fitzpatrick
Subject Sorting varchar w/single digits
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Msg-id 1092185684.24833.3.camel@columbus.webtent.org
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Re: Sorting varchar w/single digits  (Michael Fuhr <mike@fuhr.org>)
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I have varchar column with both numbers and letters, like 1 thru 10 and
5A thru 5G, they are unit numbers for apartments. If I have 1 thru 100,
since it is a varchar field, it sorts like 1,10,11... instead of
1,2,3...

Is there any way to handle this without having to make a sort order
column?

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Robert

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