>>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.
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>>I want to create a select that will translate these so a report can be ordered by importance.
>>
>>This returns an error message:
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>>
>>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

This would work for little list like this one however if it's long then better you create a cursor for it and do a join.
Cetin