>Hello All,
>
>I'm trying to use a case when in this select to order classifications. The grades available, in order of importance are A+,A,B+,B,C+,C.
>
>I want to create a select that will translate these so a report can be ordered by importance.
>
>This returns an error message:
>
>
>Select name, sire1, case when grade = "A+" then "1", grade = "A" then "2", grade = "B+" then "3" end as gradeorder from master where grade <> " " order by name
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>Any help would be appreciated.
>
>Jim Harvey
>jharvey@netrax.net

James,
SQL server does that but this kind of case is not allowed in VFP SQL.
You could do something like :

Select name, sire1, ;
  iif(grade = "A+",1,;
  iif(grade = "A",2,;
  iif(grade = "B+",3,;
  iif(grade = "B",4,;
  iif(grade = "A",2,;
))))) as gradeorder from master where grade # " " order by name

Cetin