Sorting Rows based on previous row value

i don't see any difference in order of both lists beside that P3 was typed instead of P2 in the second row of the second list. can you post a better sample to explain what you mean?

Sara

Can you post an example of the desired result based on the sample you gave?

result
Product        Category
P1                  Cat1
P3                 Cat3
P2                  Cat1
P4                  Cat2
P5                  Cat1

What should be the expected result if you have a new row:
P6  Cat1

add it to the end of rows

Is there a reason why you want P3/CAT3 before P2/CAT1?

What happens to P4/CAT2 ?

Without a knowledge of the reason You may have difficulty finding an effective solution.

E.g is there a hierarchy in the data?

I think we don't have all information to proceed with a solution.
For example, how the Category is ordered? Only alphabetic? Shouldn't exist a Category table?
And what's the purpose to sort the rows like that?

first i want to thanks you all
what i want is sort rows where category not similar to the previous row and the next row

Where category is different to the previous and next rows...
Previous and next require an order too, so we need this order before we calculate an output order

So what is in the data to ensure the correct initial order. E.g. A date/time Created?

Also, do you Use SQL server 2012 or later?

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Sorry for the misspellings above

Do you use SQL server 2012 or later?

no 2008

still need more knowledge about the table and data.

Can you provide the DDL for the table plus inserts of some complete rows. To achieve the wanted output order we must first establish what is previous and what is next  in the data.

Id       ProductId        CtegoryId
1            920                   3
2            512                   2
3            630                   15
4            88                     1
5            26                     1
6            1320                 3
7             332                   4

When you provide samples please provide the source sample as the desired result. So, what should be the result for the sample you've provided?

CREATE TABLE [dbo].[Conductor](
	[Id] [int] IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL,
	[Program] [varchar](50) NOT NULL,
	[ProgId] [int] NOT NULL,
	[Material] [varchar](50) NOT NULL,
	[MaterialId] [varchar](50) NOT NULL,
	[Category] [varchar](50) NOT NULL,
	[CategoryId] [int] NOT NULL,
	[BreakNo] [int] NOT NULL,
	[BreakSequ] [int] NULL,
	[Ddate] [date] NULL,
 CONSTRAINT [PK_Conductor] PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED 
(
	[Id] ASC
)WITH (PAD_INDEX = OFF, STATISTICS_NORECOMPUTE = OFF, IGNORE_DUP_KEY = OFF, ALLOW_ROW_LOCKS = ON, ALLOW_PAGE_LOCKS = ON) ON [PRIMARY]
) ON [PRIMARY]

GO

SET ANSI_PADDING OFF
GO

ALTER TABLE [dbo].[Conductor] ADD  CONSTRAINT [DF_Conductor_BreakNo]  DEFAULT ((0)) FOR [BreakNo]
GO

ALTER TABLE [dbo].[Conductor] ADD  CONSTRAINT [DF_Conductor_BreakSequ]  DEFAULT ((0)) FOR [BreakSequ]
GO

Select allOpen in new window

1      prog1      1      mat001      1      cat01      1      0      0      2015-10-04
2      prog1      1      mat002      2      cat01      1      0      0      2015-12-04
3      prog1      1      mat003      3      cat02      2      0      0      2015-10-15
4      prog1      1      mat004      4      cat02      2      0      0      2015-10-04
5      prog1      1      mat005      5      cat03      3      0      0      2015-10-02
6      prog1      1      mat006      6      cat04      4      0      0      2015-10-03
7      prog2      2      mat001      1      cat01      1      0      0      2015-10-04
8      prog2      2      mat002      2      cat01      1      0      0      2015-12-04
9      prog2      2      mat003      3      cat02      2      0      0      2015-10-15
10      prog2      2      mat004      4      cat02      2      0      0      2015-10-04
11      prog2      2      mat005      5      cat03      3      0      0      2015-10-02
12      prog2      2      mat006      6      cat04      4      0      0      2015-10-03

result after my sort

1      prog1      1      mat001      1      cat01      1      0      0      2015-10-04
3      prog1      1      mat003      3      cat02      2      0      0      2015-10-15
5      prog1      1      mat005      5      cat03      3      0      0      2015-10-02
6      prog1      1      mat006      6      cat04      4      0      0      2015-10-03
2      prog1      1      mat002      2      cat01      1      0      0      2015-12-04
9      prog2      2      mat003      3      cat02      2      0      0      2015-10-15
11      prog2      2      mat005      5      cat03      3      0      0      2015-10-02
12      prog2      2      mat006      6      cat04      4      0      0      2015-10-03
4      prog1      1      mat004      4      cat02      2      0      0      2015-10-04
7      prog2      2      mat001      1      cat01      1      0      0      2015-10-04
8      prog2      2      mat002      2      cat01      1      0      0      2015-12-04
10      prog2      2      mat004      4      cat02      2      0      0      2015-10-04

I don't see a way to achieve this from just that single table. Perhaps others can.