>>I have a field containing records like the following:
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>>AA,AA,AA,BB,BB,DD,EE,EE,EE,EE,EE,FF,FF,FF
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>>If I order them they come out as above.
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>>I need say the FF to come before the EE, and the rest to stay the same.
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>>Anyone any ideas how this could be done.
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>See chrtran() and strtran(). You could also use a lookup table.
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>If you explain why you to do this, we might give more specific suggestions.
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>Hilmar.
For more complicated conditions, you could create a UDF that returns the value you want, perhaps with a DO CASE. Be sure to return a value of fixed size (see padr()).
The UDF must be always accesible when you do changes in the table - perhaps the best place to store it is in the DB stored procedures.
Hilmar.
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