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Odd SQL ORDER BY Behavior
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03/08/2000 18:06:20
Cindy Winegarden
Duke University Medical Center
Durham, North Carolina, United States
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Visual FoxPro
Category:
Coding, syntax & commands
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00400758
Message ID:
00400759
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Guess #1, because you order by field 1, the rec number.

>Can anyone explain why this does not put the record with "PBMTU" (Pediatric Bone Marrow Transplant Unit) in the last position?
>
>It's for an internal report and really doesn't matter, except that I'm really surprised it comes out in this order.
>
>
>CREATE CURSOR Dummy (Rec N(1), MyField C(60))
>INSERT INTO Dummy (Rec, MyField) VALUES ;
>    (1, "CLINICAL ASSOCIATE - Nurse Practitioner")
>INSERT INTO Dummy (Rec, MyField) VALUES ;
>    (2, "CLINICAL ASSOCIATE - Nurse Practitioner")
>INSERT INTO Dummy (Rec, MyField) VALUES ;
>    (3, "CLINICAL ASSOCIATE - Nurse Practitioner")
>INSERT INTO Dummy (Rec, MyField) VALUES ;
>    (4, "CLINICAL ASSOCIATE - Nurse Practitioner")
>INSERT INTO Dummy (Rec, MyField) VALUES ;
>    (5, "CLINICAL ASSOCIATE - Nurse Practitioner")
>INSERT INTO Dummy (Rec, MyField) VALUES ;
>    (6, "CLINICAL ASSOCIATE - Nurse Practitioner")
>
>SELECT Rec, ;
>    PADR(ALLT(MyField) + IIF(Rec = 3, " - PBMTU", ""), 50) ;
>    AS MyField ;
>    FROM Dummy ;
>    ORDER BY 1, 2
>
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