sorting a list accordint to criteria

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Posted 18-Dec-12 6:51am

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Updated 18-Dec-12 7:33am

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[no name] 18-Dec-12 12:57pm

what have you tried ??

Thomas Daniels 18-Dec-12 12:58pm

http://www.whathaveyoutried.com/ is a shorter link.

Member 9374423 18-Dec-12 13:03pm

SELECT Region,Contact From tblContacts
ORDER BY 1 DESC
Group By Region

this will only order it in alphabetic order, as seen cape town is below the rest of the regions in the below section.

joshrduncan2012 18-Dec-12 13:09pm

Can you elaborate more as to how Fig 2 is sorted?

Member 9374423 18-Dec-12 13:21pm

I want to sort fig 1 so that it looks exactly like figure 2

Abhishek Pant 18-Dec-12 13:37pm

Your code doesnt worked for me.

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Hasham Ahmad · Accepted Answer · 2012-12-18T08:38:00

Solution 1

Select Region, Contact From tblContacts
Order by Region, Contact

Posted 18-Dec-12 8:38am

Hasham Ahmad