RE: Embedded SQL: ORDER BY

Beautiful!  That works!

Thanks,

Phil

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> From: owner-rpg400-l@midrange.com [mailto:owner-rpg400-l@midrange.com]On
> Behalf Of R. Bruce Hoffman, Jr.
> Sent: Friday, June 29, 2001 1:48 PM
> To: RPG400-L@midrange.com
> Subject: Re: Embedded SQL: ORDER BY
>
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>
> -----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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