How Do I Order The Items In A Table Which Starts With A Word ?

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I have to fetch data from data base which contains a particular word.Am using below query to fetch values
(UPPER(columnname) LIKE UPPER('%test%')
so this query is working fine and returning values.
Above query returning values like below order

aatest
ggtest
ddtest
test
kktest
mtest

but i want test as the first row,like below

test
aatest
ggtest
ddtest
kktest
mtest

test should come first as its matching with search word perfectly.But other values are also need to show but after test.

In c# side am showing this result in grid. I need to do this order in either in C# datatable or in oracle DB query.

Please help

Posted 11-Nov-14 20:34pm

Am Gayathri

Updated 12-Nov-14 0:35am

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Thava Rajan 12-Nov-14 2:49am

what you mean by ordering, there is no order in your data
test
mtest
aatest
ddtest
ggtest
kktest
is this what you want?

Am Gayathri 12-Nov-14 3:04am

'Test' should come first.Am not worried about the order of other items.

2 solutions

Solution 2

Apply the order by clause by replacing the Test word with blank

e.g. Order by Replace(columnname,'test','')

Posted 11-Nov-14 21:25pm

Shweta N Mishra

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Am Gayathri 12-Nov-14 4:58am

Its not working

Shweta N Mishra 12-Nov-14 5:07am

It works and worked with below example

Create table #temp(col1 Varchar(10))
insert #temp select 'aatest'
insert #temp select 'ggtest'
insert #temp select 'ddtest'
insert #temp select 'test'
insert #temp select 'kktest'
insert #temp select 'mtest'

select * from #temp order by Replace(col1,'test','')

Shweta N Mishra 12-Nov-14 5:04am

what is your command you ran, post your query here

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Maciej Los · Accepted Answer · 2014-11-11T21:24:00

Solution 1

Add something like this at the end of query:

SQL

ORDER BY CASE WHEN FieldName = 'test' then 0 Else 1 END, FieldName

[EDIT]
Example: http://sqlfiddle.com/#!6/ca7a1/2[^]

Posted 11-Nov-14 21:24pm

Maciej Los

Updated 11-Nov-14 23:10pm

v2

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Am Gayathri 12-Nov-14 4:58am

Its not working

Maciej Los 12-Nov-14 5:09am

Working as well!
SqlFiddle [^]

Am Gayathri 12-Nov-14 6:27am

Worked
Thanks

Maciej Los 12-Nov-14 6:54am

You're welcome ;)