• Just wrap it in a CTE:

    ; WITH cte AS

    (

    SELECT DISTINCT EDI_PARTNER_CD

    FROM MG_EDI_PARTNER

    UNION ALL

    SELECT TOP 1 '(NULL)', EDI_PARTNER_CD

    FROM MG_EDI_PARTNER AS MG_EDI_PARTNER_1

    WHERE (DELETED_FLG = 'N')

    )

    SELECT EDI_PARTNER_CD

    FROM cte

    ORDER BY

    CASE EDI_PARTNER_CD WHEN 'INTTRA' THEN 1

    WHEN 'GTNEXUS' THEN 2

    WHEN 'DAKOSY' THEN 3

    WHEN 'DAMCO' THEN 4

    WHEN 'DBH' THEN 5

    WHEN 'BMW_CONT' THEN 6

    WHEN 'CATERPILLAR' THEN 7

    WHEN 'CARGOSMART' THEN 8

    WHEN 'EXPEDITORS' THEN 9

    ELSE 10 END,

    EDI_PARTNER_CD

    As a side note: I changed UNION to UNION ALL together with a TOP 1 in order to reduce overhead (UNION is required to remove the duplicates caused by the missing TOP 1).



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