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It's quite dependent on the values you wish to sort, you could use the mentioned query or use padding to make the number value evaluate as alphanumeric.<br />
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You could use a function to calculate and return a &quot;sortable&quot; value.
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It's quite dependent on the values you wish to sort, you could use the mentioned query or use padding to make the number value evaluate as alphanumeric.

You could use a function to calculate and return a "sortable" value.

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I have a table in a form that I want to show the values in ascending alphabetical order and then nemerical. currently if you sort alphbetically it places the numeric values first. how can I get it to put the alphbetic valuse first? Using MS SQL 2005
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I have a table in a form that I want to show the values in ascending alphabetical order and then nemerical. currently if you sort alphbetically it places the numeric values first. how can I get it to put the alphbetic valuse first? Using MS SQL 2005

SQL sort values alphabetically then Numercially

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Microsoft SQL Server 2005 is a suite of relational database management system (RDBMS) products providing multi-user database access functionality.Component services include integration (SSIS), reporting (SSRS), analysis (SSAS), data quality, master data, T-SQL and performance tuning. It includes support for managing XML data and allows a database server to be exposed over web services using Tabular Data Stream (TDS) packets encapsulated within SOAP (protocol) requests.

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