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Wrong "order by" results
I have the following Perl code that takes the data from MySQL and sorts it:
$querystr = "select ID,Name,Description,Pictur
$sth = &sql($querystr);
For some reason the sorted results look like this (field 10_Min):
526
412
135
1342
125
95
Why is 1342 not on top of this list and what do I need to do to change in the code to have 1342 on top?
$querystr = "select ID,Name,Description,Pictur
$sth = &sql($querystr);
For some reason the sorted results look like this (field 10_Min):
526
412
135
1342
125
95
Why is 1342 not on top of this list and what do I need to do to change in the code to have 1342 on top?
it's ordered in ASCII order, not numeric order. But it's not perl, it's SQL that is ordering the data. I'm not sure of the proper SQL command though to order it numerically.
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This worked for me:
select ID, Name, Description, PictureURL, InformationURL, Rate, cast(10_Min as integer), 20_Min, Connect
from $Table_Name
order by 10_Min desc, Rate asc, Connect asc
select ID, Name, Description, PictureURL, InformationURL, Rate, cast(10_Min as integer), 20_Min, Connect
from $Table_Name
order by 10_Min desc, Rate asc, Connect asc