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Old 12-22-10, 13:27
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ORDER BY Canada, Unisted States then
In a country list I would lint the order to be: ORDER BY Canada, United States,
then the rest of the countries alphabetical. Would I need to do two UNIONs?

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Old 12-22-10, 14:12
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Code:
ORDER BY 
    CASE 
       WHEN country_name = 'Canada' THEN 'AAAAAA'
       WHEN country_name = 'United States' THEN 'AAAAAB'
       ELSE country_name
    END
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Old 12-22-10, 14:26
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I didn't realize CASE could be used except in a SELECT statement! Can it be used in the WHERE?

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Old 12-22-10, 15:12
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So if I have list of countries and I want one or two of the countries a the top and the rest alphabetically, this will do it?

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Old 12-22-10, 15:27
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... this will do it?
what happened when you tested it?

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Old 12-22-10, 16:53
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OK, your right, it works!
CASE is a lot more interesting than I thought.

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