Re: SQL Order Question - Mailing list pgsql-novice

From Richard Broersma Jr
Subject Re: SQL Order Question
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Msg-id 20060504194021.50631.qmail@web31811.mail.mud.yahoo.com
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In response to Re: SQL Order Question  (<operationsengineer1@yahoo.com>)
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> > On 5/5/06, operationsengineer1@yahoo.com
> > <operationsengineer1@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > > hi all,
> > >
> > > i want to order contract numbers id ascending
> > order,
> > > with the exception of 'BTS' that I want to display
> > > first.  the contract numbers are numeric and 'BTS'
> > is
> > > text.  the numeric values come first when i sort
> > in
> > > asc order - as expected.  how can i get BTS (id =
> > 0)
> > > to come up as the first value in my query?
> > I'm not sure I fully understand the structure of
> > your
> > data ... do BTS and the numeric contract numbers
> > appear in the same column?>
> yes.

Perhaps you could union two selects together?

Regards,



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