SQL Custom sorting
I need to be able to custom sort values that come from a query basically i have a query like this
SELECT Name from Table
and i want to be able to custom order the values
Ideally, it would add an extra field to the SQL query at runtime so the result would be something like this
Name SortOrder
--------------------------
John 1
Sam 2
Susan 3
Andy 4
SELECT Name from Table
and i want to be able to custom order the values
Ideally, it would add an extra field to the SQL query at runtime so the result would be something like this
Name SortOrder
--------------------------
John 1
Sam 2
Susan 3
Andy 4
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Expand on 'custom sort'. Are you trying to get an incrementing integer value for each name, or establishing a sort order other than A-Z name?
If the names are fixed then you can do something like this...
An illustration can be found in SQL Server CASE Solutions
SELECT blah, blah, blah
FROM your_table
ORDER BY CASE
WHEN name='John' THEN 1
WHEN name='Sam' THEN 2
WHEN name='Susan' THEN 3
WHEN name='Andy' THEN 4 END
An illustration can be found in SQL Server CASE Solutions
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