ORDER BY options (how to order data as AAA, aaa, BBB, bbb, ... ZZZ, zzz)

SELECT * FROM MY_TABLE ORDER BY LOWER(NAME);

Thanks

Dinesh Pandey

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Hello,

I have following problem:

I have table MY_TABLE with following records:

NAME

-----------

ccc

CCC

AAA

aaa

bbb

BBB

When I use default select that sort all data by NAME:

SELECT * FROM MY_TABLE ORDER BY NAME;

result is following:

NAME

-----------

AAA

BBB

CCC

aaa

bbb

ccc

But I would like to sort all data as following:

NAME

-----------

AAA

aaa

BBB

bbb

CCC

ccc

How can I write sql command (or set up ORDER BY options) for selecting that?

Thank you in advance for answer,

best regards,

Julian Legeny

mailto:julo@opensubsystems.org

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On Tue, 10 May 2005 07:41 pm, Julian Legeny wrote:

Hello,

I have following problem:

But I would like to sort all data as following:

NAME
-----------
AAA
aaa
BBB
bbb
CCC
ccc

How can I write sql command (or set up ORDER BY options) for selecting that?

SELECT * FROM MY_TABLE ORDER BY lower(NAME), NAME

The second NAME is to ensure that AAA comes before aaa, otherwise the order is undetermined.

On Tue, 2005-05-10 at 11:41 +0200, Julian Legeny wrote:

...
But I would like to sort all data as following:

NAME
-----------
AAA
aaa
BBB
bbb
CCC
ccc

How can I write sql command (or set up ORDER BY options) for selecting that?

how about ORDER BY lower(NAME),NAME ?

gnari

Hello,

that's what I was looking for.

Thanks to all for advices,
with best regards,

Julian Legeny

Tuesday, May 10, 2005, 12:14:38 PM, you wrote:

RS> SELECT * FROM MY_TABLE ORDER BY lower(NAME), NAME

RS> The second NAME is to ensure that AAA comes before aaa, otherwise the order is undetermined.

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if you order by upper(name) then it will mix them all together, so you won't
have capital before lowercase, but it will put all the lowercase a before
the uppercase b

"Julian Legeny" <julo@opensubsystems.org> wrote in message
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Hello,

I have following problem:

I have table MY_TABLE with following records:

NAME
-----------
ccc
CCC
AAA
aaa
bbb
BBB

When I use default select that sort all data by NAME:

SELECT * FROM MY_TABLE ORDER BY NAME;

result is following:

NAME
-----------
AAA
BBB
CCC
aaa
bbb
ccc

But I would like to sort all data as following:

NAME
-----------
AAA
aaa
BBB
bbb
CCC
ccc

How can I write sql command (or set up ORDER BY options) for selecting

that?