HOW TO ORDER THE VARCHAR

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How to order the varchar fiels as like number where first 2 char are fixed

eg I Have values like

mr1
mr100
mr2
mr110
mr101
mr1000

and the order valus should be like

mr1
mr2
mr100
mr101
mr110
mr1000

Posted 22-Jul-14 23:56pm

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Updated 22-Jul-14 23:57pm

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Maciej Los · Accepted Answer · 2014-07-23T00:32:00

Solution 2

As Carlo said, you need to extract numeric part in ORDER clause.

SQL

SELECT ColumnName
FROM TableName
ORDER BY CONVERT(INT, RIGHT(ColumnName, LEN(ColumnName)-2))

Posted 23-Jul-14 0:32am

Maciej Los

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ZurdoDev 23-Jul-14 7:19am

+5

Maciej Los 23-Jul-14 7:19am

Thank you ;)

CPallini · Accepted Answer · 2014-07-23T00:00:00

Solution 1

Just extract the numeric part of the field and base your order clause on that.

Posted 23-Jul-14 0:00am

CPallini

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[no name] 23-Jul-14 6:08am

how to extract and order the field ? Can you give with example

Maciej Los 23-Jul-14 6:32am

+5!

CPallini 23-Jul-14 7:15am

Thank you man and have my 5 as well.

mukesh.netdev · Accepted Answer · 2014-07-23T01:21:00

Solution 4

SELECT [COLUMN Name] FROM [Table Name] ORDER BY CONVERT(INT,RIGHT(COLUMN Name,LEN(COLUMN Name)-3))

Try this..it will work..

Posted 23-Jul-14 1:21am

mukesh.netdev

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ZurdoDev 23-Jul-14 7:24am

This solution was already posted.