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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"');
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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