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Re: Implicit cast on ORDER BY

This works. Thank you

order by
(case :H <> :H then NumericCol end),
(case :H = :H then CharCol end)




date: Thu, 24 Oct 2024 07:39:51 -0500
from: Vern Hamberg via MIDRANGE-L <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
subject: Re: Implicit cast on ORDER BY

Hi Justin

I just googled for *conditional order by* and got an interesting hit
that might help.

In a CASE, the results must be the same data type, I saw. It wasn't IBM
i, but the rule still holds.

One solution was to use multiple CASE, something like this - I'm just
taking a wild shot here - each CASE can have its own data type -

order by
(case :H <> :H then NumericCol end)
(case :H = :H then CharCol end)

Your USING clause would add a couple values.

Here's a link to the page -
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15621609/t-sql-conditional-order-by

Regards
Vern



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