[AccessD] Sort Blanks to the bottom

Edward S Zuris edzedz at comcast.net
Sun Nov 2 11:13:52 CST 2008


 Here is one method, have a extra field such as
 a flag field, where nulls are given a high value
 such as 2^11 and non-nulls given zero.


-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of Rocky Smolin
at Beach Access Software
Sent: Sunday, November 02, 2008 9:56 AM
To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
Subject: [AccessD] Sort Blanks to the bottom


Dear List:

I have to create a record source for a list box of three fields Field1,
Field2, Field3.  For some records Field2 can be null.  The client wants the
non-null field2 records at the top sorted by field two then field3, and the
records with a null field 2 at the bottom sorted by field3.  Can't seem to
get this one.  I tried a union query of two queries one selecting null field
2 and one selecting non-null field 2 but the nulls still come out on top:

SELECT VarietyID, Class, Variety FROM VarietyTBL WHERE VarietyTBL.Class Is
Not Null ORDER BY Class, Variety Union Select VarietyID, Class, Variety from
VarietyTBL WHERE VarietyTBL.Class Is Null ORDER BY Class, Variety

Anyone have a solution to this?

MTIA








Rocky Smolin

Beach Access Software

858-259-4334

www.e-z-mrp.com <http://www.e-z-mrp.com/>

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