>I guess your tip will help. I'll put an extra field in my cursor as,
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>SELECT substr(month,5,2)+substr(year,4,2) AS mysort FROM.... ORDER BY mysort
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>since it can kill 2 birds with one stone, as how Ed stated.

If you're going to put an extra field in, why don't you use the full date? That way, you don't have any Y2K issues on the sorting.