[thelist] MySQl madness

Paul Bennett paul at teltest.com
Tue Dec 9 20:43:51 CST 2003


Tony Crockford wrote:

> Maybe it's my choice of music or maybe it's just old age but how can 
> the following list be ordered by cd_title?
>
>       cd_ref     cd_title              cd_desc    
>            5    Used Unrestored        good used condition fully 
> working   
>            2    A1 Restored        Perfect restored Condition   
>            1    A1 Unrestored        Perfect unrestored Condition   
>            4    Pattern only        Very poor condition to be used 
> onlt for patterm ma...   
>            3    Urgent action        Poor Condition. Preservation 
> required to prevent l...
>
>
> This is the mySQL query:
>
> SELECT * FROM cond_def ORDER BY cd_title 

try 'order by cd_title ASC'
to ascend in alphabetic order

also check there is no space in front of the 'Used Unrestored' title


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