Re: Order by for varchar ???

Add a second column and store the value in decimal; then sort by that column.

• Original Message ----- To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com> Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2001 12:56 PM

> One of our developers was looking for solution for his problem ..
>
> Any idea folks .. ??
>
> He wants to sort his data asc or desc for a varchar column ..
>
>
> 1> create table test(width varchar2(20));
>
> 2>
> insert into test values('5/8"');
> insert into test values('4"');
> insert into test values('3/4"');
> insert into test values('2"');
> insert into test values('1-1/2"');
> insert into test values('1"');
>
> 3>
> select width from test order by width DESC;
>
>
> 5/8"
> 3/4"
> 1"
> 1-1/2"
> 2"
> 4"
>
>
> Cheers
> RK
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