[dba-SQLServer] sorting by priority then by date?

Hi Francisco,

I see that you have it working,

I sometimes like to use CASE in these situations also, as I was reading
your initial email, I was imagining a

Order by
Case when col between 90 and 99 then 1
when between 1 and 89 then 2
end

and then concat on the date value.

Anyway, glad you cleared it up by expressing it to the group.

Mark



On 9 February 2012 18:26, Francisco Tapia <fhtapia at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks Gustav,  because I'm sorting in a 3rd party reporting system I won't
> be able to sort in that manner, but I did discover that I can create a
> formula field where I pair off the priority with the date ex: 01-20120209
> and sort that way where if the field is priority 01 I keep that value,
> otherwise I replace it with a generic 99-20120209 and that sorts just as
> expected, I guess I just needed a bit of time to think and write it out...
>
>
> Thanks gang!
> -Francisco
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>
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 09:32, Gustav Brock <Gustav at cactus.dk> wrote:
>
> > Hi Francisco
> >
> > You could order by first
> >  Abs(Priority = "01") DESC
> > then by the date string.
> >
> > /gustav
> >
> > >>> fhtapia at gmail.com 09-02-2012 18:17 >>>
> > I have a non-access/vb question but more of a logic question... in the
> > current reporting tool we are using at work I have a requirement to sort
> a
> > report by priority then by date...
> >
> > Priority - Date
> > 01 - 20120115
> > 01 - 20120131
> > 01 - 20120201
> > ------------------------this is where the logic switches to sort by date
> > asc
> > 99 - 20110101
> > 99 - 20110714
> > 99 - 20110815
> > 02 - 20111220
> > 07 - 20120116
> > 90 - 20120201
> > 05 - 20120205
> >
> >
> > I know it's two queries and in SQL I can create a union query that gives
> me
> > what I want, but I am using a different tool and I think the easiest for
> > that tool is to create a combo unit of priority and date, the result
> would
> > be a KEY/DATE combo that would sort in the manner described above...
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > -Francisco
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> > <http://db.tt/JeXURAx>
> >
> >
> >
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