Re: Embedded SQL: ORDER BY

["R. Bruce Hoffman, Jr." <rbruceh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

-----Original Message-----
From: Phil <sublime78ska@yahoo.com>
To: RPG400-L@midrange.com <RPG400-L@midrange.com>
Date: Thursday, June 28, 2001 9:37 PM
Subject: Embedded SQL: ORDER BY


>
>I've only been able to do it if I explicitly include the new field
>
>    select substr(myfield,1,2) from myfile order by substr(myfield,1,2)
>
>the bummer being that I have to also explicitly include all other columns
>that I need.


Expicit, no....

 select substr(myfield,1,2), m.* from myfile m order by substr(myfield,1,2)

may even work without the correlation name...


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R. Bruce Hoffman, Jr.
 -- IBM Certified Specialist - AS/400 Administrator
 -- IBM Certified Specialist - RPG IV Developer

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