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Old 04-08-2008, 08:57 PM
Russell Smith
 
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Default Re: ORDER BY options (how to order data as AAA, aaa, BBB, bbb, ... ZZZ, zzz)

On Tue, 10 May 2005 07:41 pm, Julian Legeny wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have following problem:


> But I would like to sort all data as following:
>
> NAME
> -----------
> AAA
> aaa
> BBB
> bbb
> CCC
> ccc
>
>
> How can I write sql command (or set up ORDER BY options) for selecting that?
>

SELECT * FROM MY_TABLE ORDER BY lower(NAME), NAME

The second NAME is to ensure that AAA comes before aaa, otherwise the order is undetermined.

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