Re: ORDER BY options (how to order data as AAA, aaa, BBB, bbb, ... ZZZ, zzz) - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Sim Zacks
Subject Re: ORDER BY options (how to order data as AAA, aaa, BBB, bbb, ... ZZZ, zzz)
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In response to ORDER BY options (how to order data as AAA, aaa, BBB, bbb, ... ZZZ, zzz)  (Julian Legeny <julo@opensubsystems.org>)
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if you order by upper(name) then it will mix them all together, so you won't
have capital before lowercase, but it will put all the lowercase a before
the uppercase b


"Julian Legeny" <julo@opensubsystems.org> wrote in message
news:559596967.20050510114150@opensubsystems.org...
> Hello,
>
>    I have following problem:
>
> I have table MY_TABLE with following records:
>
>    NAME
> -----------
>    ccc
>    CCC
>    AAA
>    aaa
>    bbb
>    BBB
>
> When I use default select that sort all data by NAME:
>
>         SELECT * FROM MY_TABLE ORDER BY NAME;
>
> result is following:
>
>    NAME
> -----------
>    AAA
>    BBB
>    CCC
>    aaa
>    bbb
>    ccc
>
>
> But I would like to sort all data as following:
>
>    NAME
> -----------
>    AAA
>    aaa
>    BBB
>    bbb
>    CCC
>    ccc
>
>
> How can I write sql command (or set up ORDER BY options) for selecting
that?
>
>
>    Thank you in advance for answer,
>    best regards,
>
>    Julian Legeny
>
> mailto:julo@opensubsystems.org
>
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