> > 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,