cms9651 (9/6/2012)
The rule for the sorting is mat geographic NAME.MAW = My Area West
MAE = My Area East
MAC = My Area Center
MAS = My Area South
Ahh there is the challenge you were running into. You didn't have anything to order by.
Try this.
ORDER BY [DVD] DESC, CASE WHEN MAT = 'Tot' THEN 1 ELSE 0 END, CASE MAT when 'MAW' then 0 when 'MAE' then 1 when 'MAC' then 2 when 'MAS' then 4 end
yep as I was typing Eugene posted pretty much the same thing. 😀
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