Data in Acending order by numbers

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I Want to retrieve data from database by ascending order. In Database numbers are stored as
1 2 3 1 2 3 1 1 2 3 4 .... 10
but when i run my query then it show as
1 1 1 1 10 2 2 3 3 3 4
My query is

SQL

SELECT * FROM tblDetail
    WHERE USERID = @uID
ORDER BY day ASC

Here day is number 1 2 3 4 etc
i.e on day 1 on day 2

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Posted 18-Nov-12 4:37am

Yasir Farooq

Updated 18-Nov-12 4:45am

Thomas Daniels

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Solution 2

The problem is almost certainly that you have stored the data as a string, rather than a number. In strings, "10" comes before "2" because it starts with an earlier character: i.e. 1 is less than 2

Change your database: use numbers where possible, string comparisons do not work the same way as integer comparisons!

Posted 18-Nov-12 5:26am

OriginalGriff

Solution 3

ORDER BY Clause will return 1 1 1 1 2 2 3 3 3 4 10 ... not 1 1 1 1 10 2 2 3 3 3 4 .
I think your field type is not numeric type.

SQL

Select * from tblDetail order by  convert(int, day)

If this solution not fulfill your requirement, give details and also table structure.

Posted 18-Nov-12 5:41am

Subrata.In

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Manas Bhardwaj · Accepted Answer · 2012-11-18T05:24:00

Solution 1

I would do something like this:

SQL

SELECT *, CONVERT(int, your_column) AS your_column_int
FROM your_table
ORDER BY your_column_int

Posted 18-Nov-12 5:24am

Manas Bhardwaj