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Forum:
Microsoft SQL Server
Category:
SQL syntax
Title:
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01436398
Message ID:
01436402
Views:
43
>I just stumbled across this little gem
>
>
>declare @x table ( i1 int, i2 int )
>insert into @x values ( 1, 2 )
>insert into @x values ( 2, 1 )
>
>select *
>   from @x
>   order by
>       case when 1 = 1
>          then i1
>          else i2
>       end
>
>select *
>   from @x
>   order by
>       case when 1 != 1
>          then i1
>          else i2
>       end
>
>
>Works in 2000 and 2005. The example is a bogus when clause, more practically it'll be a parameter to your stored proc to pick the column to use for the output order. Go purge all that dynamic SQL you have just to get alternate output order.

Works in 2008 too, but as Naomi, I'm not sure what you mean?
You just tell us that this is possible?
Against Stupidity the Gods themselves Contend in Vain - Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller
The only thing normal about database guys is their tables.
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