>>Integer to numeric? Then padl(myNumField,10,'0')+dtos(). Numerics didn't sound as an id to me and couldn't determine such a usage.
>>Cetin
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>I'm not talking about IDs anymore.
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>I defined a new simple problem:
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>Have a numeric field (not an ID) in the ascending order and the date field in the descending order.
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>Both fields may be blank or null.
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>Don't use a select statement :)

padl(iF,20)+trans(int(99999999-VAL(DTOS(nvl(dF,{})))))

Cetin