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M Hello Angela, You wrote: >I have a 2 position text field that I am sorting by. The codes go from AA, >AB...A1, A2... BB, B1 etc. We are sending this to a sql server. When >they sort it, the order is A1, AA, ...B1, BB The numerics are taking >precedence. They say it is sorting ascii. I thought ascii sort was >alpha/numeric also??? It IS sorting alpha/numeric. If you looked at an ASCII/EBCDIC chart you would see that EBCDIC puts the numbers after the alphabetic characters while ASCII puts the numbers before them. On the AS/400 you could use sort tables to change the order of the sort. I doubt that SQL Server has any mechanism for doing that but you could check with the administrators of that toy and see what they say. Regards, Simon Coulter. «»«»«»«»«»«»«»«»«»«»«»«»«»«»«»«»«»«»«»«»«»«»«»«»«»«»«»«»«»«»«»«»«»«» «» FlyByNight Software AS/400 Technical Specialists «» «» Eclipse the competition - run your business on an IBM AS/400. «» «» «» «» Phone: +61 3 9419 0175 Mobile: +61 0411 091 400 /"\ «» «» Fax: +61 3 9419 0175 mailto: shc@flybynight.com.au \ / «» «» X «» «» ASCII Ribbon campaign against HTML E-Mail / \ «» «»«»«»«»«»«»«»«»«»«»«»«»«»«»«»«»«»«»«»«»«»«»«»«»«»«»«»«»«»«»«»«»«»«»
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