order by CASE

• rk

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  October 9, 2002 at 6:15 pm

  #158508

  Hi everyone,

  I am trying to use order by and CASE to avoid using dynamic sql in stored procs.

  when i use

  order by

  case when x then col1

  case when y then col2

  end

  it works.

  but if i want to order by more than 1 column,

  like this

  case

  when x then col1,col2

  when y then col1

  end

  this doesn't work. can anyone help me.

  Thanks

• Robert W Marda

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  October 9, 2002 at 7:14 pm

  #438208

  You can do it like this:

  order by

  case when x = 1 then col1

  when y = 1 then col1

  end,

  case when x = 1 then cols

  end

  Robert W. Marda

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