Re: SQL and Order By Question

Hi
I cannot modify the table, can i add this field 2 on
fly to the SQL statment
i have SQL statement like below
select * from table where Field1 = 'a' or Field1'='c'
or Field1='d' or Field1='b'
So if i can add row number or get the query without
any sort or order by, then would be a great help

Ashish
--- Michael_Schutte@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

Well, if you don't want to order by a,b,c,d... then
you are going to need
a different field to sort on that will put it in the
order you want.

Field1 Field2
a 1
b 4
c 2
d 3


select field1 from file order by field2


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wrote on
07/30/2007 11:12:02 AM:

Hi
I have a table, which i want to sort by value in

Key,

for example the table is as below
Key Desc
a This is A
b This is B
c This is C
d This is d

I want to read the result set as

a
c
d
b

How do i write this SQl statement, if i just do

order

by Key i can get it either a,b,c,d or d,c,b,a but

not

the way i want
Any ideas

Ashish

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