InstantForum.NET v2.9.0SQLServerCentralhttp://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/notifications@sqlservercentral.comSat, 25 May 2013 18:30:52 GMT20http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic782130-169-1.aspxThese have to be coming back as characters. Therefore they'll be ordered as characters.20:1:1comes before 20:2:5No matter what the math, these are ordered by characters. If you have some rules, you could use charindex and substring to strip out the individual numbers and possibly find a way to order them, but the rules for reducing these to the lowest values would be complex.Again, if you develop the rules that you need for ordering these, we might be able to help.Thu, 03 Sep 2009 09:30:26 GMTSteve Jones - SSC Editorhttp://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic782130-169-1.aspxhii am having ratio values as output from proc for example (20:2:1)i want arrange this values in ascending order or in descending orderThu, 03 Sep 2009 09:22:47 GMTakilammhttp://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic782130-169-1.aspxI'm not sure what I'm looking at here. What are the data types? Is the ratio a char field? If so, then it is ordered as characters.What ordering are you trying to get, or what are the rules for ordering your ratios?Thu, 03 Sep 2009 09:09:53 GMTSteve Jones - SSC Editorhttp://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic782130-169-1.aspxHii am trying to arrange ratio dataset in ascending orderexample dataset looks like this50302136 120:0:7:450303835 194:0:9:650302786 249:0:14:750302640 37:0:2:050303753 382:0:7:150302137 59:0:10:0i tried with order by ,it is not working is there any solution to arrange data in ascending orderThu, 03 Sep 2009 07:10:27 GMTakilamm