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  • September 1, 2012 at 8:31 am

    #1532681

    UmaShankar Patel (9/1/2012)

    You need to select query as

    select * from @NumberTable

    order by Convert(numeric,REPLACE(REPLACE(ItemNumber,'ABC-',''),'-xyz','')) asc

    Like Ravi said, the "XYZ" portion could change so this won't work.

    --Jeff Moden

    RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
    First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
    ________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

    Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.

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