Order By

somthing like this:
order by Mall_ID, case when [company name] = 'ABC' then 0 else 1 end, [company name]

order by Mall_ID, case when [company name] = 'Sears' then 0 else 1 end, [company name]

Sorry forget to add the SQL statement I currently have:

SELECT Mallsgis_Labels.Mall_ID, Mallsgis_Labels.[Mall Name], Mallsgis_Labels.[Company Name]
FROM Mallsgis_Labels
ORDER BY Mallsgis_Labels.Mall_ID, IIf(Mallsgis_Labels.[company name]="Sears"," " & Mallsgis_Labels.[company name], Mallsgis_Labels.[company name]);

Have you tried

... ORDER BY Mall_ID, Company_Name

I don't completely understand AngelIII  could you edit my example SQL?

you can also do it this way:

SELECT Mallsgis_Labels.Mall_ID, Mallsgis_Labels.[Mall Name], Mallsgis_Labels.[Company Name]
FROM Mallsgis_Labels
Where Mallsgis_Labels.[Company Name] <> "Sears"

Union

SELECT Mallsgis_Labels.Mall_ID, Mallsgis_Labels.[Mall Name], " " & Mallsgis_Labels.[Company Name]
FROM Mallsgis_Labels
Where Mallsgis_Labels.[Company Name] = "Sears"
ORDER BY 2, 3

yes, like this:

SELECT Mallsgis_Labels.Mall_ID, Mallsgis_Labels.[Mall Name], Mallsgis_Labels.[Company Name]
FROM Mallsgis_Labels
ORDER BY Mallsgis_Labels.Mall_ID, IIf(Mallsgis_Labels.[company name]="Sears",0,1), Mallsgis_Labels.[company name];

I actually read too late that it was about access...

leew

I first want to order by Mall_ID.  Then I want to order where Company_Name = 'Sears' and then order by Company_Name in Asc.

So the what you have takes care of two of the three problems except where company_name = 'Sears'

At first it was in Access so I could see the results but then I moved to VB Script and found out it does not like iif statements.  So in the end it is VB Script.

This would actually work better, as you'd have a workable column without the space in front :)

SELECT Mallsgis_Labels.Mall_ID, Mallsgis_Labels.[Mall Name], Mallsgis_Labels.[Company Name] as companyname, Mallsgis_Labels.[Company Name] as Sortcolumn
FROM Mallsgis_Labels
Where Mallsgis_Labels.[Company Name] <> "Sears"

Union

SELECT Mallsgis_Labels.Mall_ID, Mallsgis_Labels.[Mall Name],Mallsgis_Labels.[Company Name], " " & Mallsgis_Labels.[Company Name]
FROM Mallsgis_Labels
Where Mallsgis_Labels.[Company Name] = "Sears"
ORDER BY 1, 4

how do you connect to the access database?

yhwhlivesinme

Well that works in Access.  I am off to see if I can get it to work in VBScript.

:-D iif is an access function, union you should be able to use in any sql situation (as far as I know, but I'm more of an access guy)

Set ADOConn = CreateObject("ADODB.Connection")
Set rsLbls = CreateObject("ADODB.Recordset")
ADOConn.Open "Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0; Data Source=R:\Loc Database\Locational.mdb;"
rsLbls.Open strLblQry, ADOConn, 3, 1, 1

Augh.  It is not working in the VB script.  Does VBScript not like Union as well.  It seems to really dislike the  (" " & Mallsgis_Labels) part for both the iif statement and the Union statement.  Any other ideas?  Come on yhwhlivesinme I know you have another way to do this query!  You are an Query writing machine.  An unstoppable machine that will not take no for an answer.

Out of curiosity what does yhwhlivesinme stand for ro mean?

this should work:

strLblQry = "SELECT Mallsgis_Labels.Mall_ID, Mallsgis_Labels.[Mall Name], Mallsgis_Labels.[Company Name] FROM Mallsgis_Labels ORDER BY Mallsgis_Labels.Mall_ID, IIf(Mallsgis_Labels.[company name]=""Sears"",0,1), Mallsgis_Labels.[company name] "

haha lol @ query writing machine :)

Can you give me all of your code? you might have to replace that with single quotes or something, I'm assuming somewhere you're doing:

dim sql as string
sql = "Select...." etc.

angel may be correct try that before you try the union, union queries aren't the best to use because they take forever on large sets of data, because you're querying the same set of data twice.

yhwh stands for yahweh (hebrew word for God) the Israelites thought it too holy to write the name of god so they removed the vowels when they wrote it.  the rest is: "lives in me"

AngelIII, As I stated earlier VBScript will not use the IIF statement.  Thanks for helping though.  Any other ideas?


Currently my code looks like this yhwhlivesinme

Dim strLabel, strLblQry, ADOConn, rsLbls, iCount, i
strLblQry = "SELECT Mallsgis_Labels.Mall_ID, Mallsgis_Labels.[Mall Name], Mallsgis_Labels.[Company Name] FROM Mallsgis_Labels ORDER BY Mallsgis_Labels.Mall_ID, IIf(Mallsgis_Labels.[company name]=""Sears"",0,1), Mallsgis_Labels.[company name] "
Set ADOConn = CreateObject("ADODB.Connection")
Set rsLbls = CreateObject("ADODB.Recordset")
ADOConn.Open "Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0; Data Source=R:\Loc Database\Locational.mdb;"
rsLbls.Open strLblQry, ADOConn, 3, 1, 1
iCount =rsLbls.Fields.Item("AnchorCount").Value
rsLbls.MoveFirst


I am trying to change the strLblQry line to this:

strLblQry ="SELECT Mallsgis_Labels.Mall_ID, Mallsgis_Labels.[Mall Name], Mallsgis_Labels.[Company Name] FROM Mallsgis_Labels Where Mallsgis_Labels.[Company Name] <> 'Sears'  UNION SELECT Mallsgis_Labels.Mall_ID, Mallsgis_Labels.[Mall Name], " " & Mallsgis_Labels.[Company Name] FROM Mallsgis_Labels Where Mallsgis_Labels.[Company Name] = 'Sears' ORDER BY 2, 3;"

I am always amazed at the reasons behind peoples user names.  Very cool name.  Sounds a lot like Harry Potter stole "he who must not be named" from the Israelites.  (Only funny if you know anything about Harry Potter)

This may work I will need some time.  Going to lunch will try when I get back.  Thanks for all of the help.

Okay this is where I am:

strLblQry = ""SELECT Mallsgis_Labels.Mall_ID, Mallsgis_Labels.[Mall Name], Mallsgis_Labels.[Company Name], Mallsgis_Labels.[AnchorCount], Mallsgis_Labels.[Division Name], Mallsgis_Labels.[Gross_SF] FROM Mallsgis_Labels Where Mallsgis_Labels.[Company Name] <> 'Federated Department Stores, Inc'  UNION SELECT Mallsgis_Labels.Mall_ID, Mallsgis_Labels.[Mall Name], ' ' & Mallsgis_Labels.[Company Name], Mallsgis_Labels.[AnchorCount], Mallsgis_Labels.[Division Name], Mallsgis_Labels.[Gross_SF]  FROM Mallsgis_Labels Where Mallsgis_Labels.Mall_ID = "" & [Mall_ID], Mallsgis_Labels.[Company Name] = 'Federated Department Stores, Inc' ORDER BY 1, 3


I need to add one more thing.  I need only where Mallsgis_Labels.Mall_ID =4.   I'm sooo close to being done.  Thanks for your help.

Try this....I wasn't sure why you had Mall_ID in there, it looked like you were trying to get value from a recordset or something....take a look at what I got, you need to make sure you put the Mallsgis_Labels.Mall_ID = 4 in both queries, the first and the second (with a union it's putting together two seperate queries)

strLblQry = "SELECT Mallsgis_Labels.Mall_ID, Mallsgis_Labels.[Mall Name], Mallsgis_Labels.[Company Name], Mallsgis_Labels.[AnchorCount], Mallsgis_Labels.[Division Name], Mallsgis_Labels.[Gross_SF] FROM Mallsgis_Labels Where Mallsgis_Labels.Mall_ID = 4 and Mallsgis_Labels.[Company Name] <> 'Federated Department Stores, Inc' UNION SELECT Mallsgis_Labels.Mall_ID, Mallsgis_Labels.[Mall Name], ' ' & Mallsgis_Labels.[Company Name], Mallsgis_Labels.[AnchorCount], Mallsgis_Labels.[Division Name], Mallsgis_Labels.[Gross_SF] FROM Mallsgis_Labels Where Mallsgis_Labels.Mall_ID = 4 and Mallsgis_Labels.[Company Name] = 'Federated Department Stores, Inc' ORDER BY 1, 3"

Thanks for all of the help.  

No problem did you get it working?