Order of the result issue in T-SQL

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Order of the result issue in T-SQL

kbhanu15

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June 17, 2014 at 3:50 am

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HI All,
I have an issue while display the result in the required order.
please help me to get the required output.
Code :
USE tempdb
GO
IF OBJECT_ID('tempdb..#VersionFormat_tbl') IS NOT NULL
DROP TABLE #VersionFormat_tbl
CREATE TABLE #VersionFormat_tbl
(
[FormatID] [smallint] NOT NULL,
[Description] [varchar](50) NULL,
[fileExtension] [varchar](10) NOT NULL,
[versionFormatTypeId] [tinyint] NOT NULL,
CONSTRAINT [PK_VersionFormat_tbl] PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED
(
[FormatID] ASC
)
)
INSERT INTO #VersionFormat_tbl
( FormatID ,
Description ,
fileExtension ,
versionFormatTypeId
)
VALUES
(1,'Text','txt',1),
(2,'HTML','html',1),
(3,'XML','xml',1),
(4,'PDF','pdf',1),
(5,'Excel','xls',1),
(6,'Word','doc',1)
GO
SELECT fileExtension,* FROM #VersionFormat_tbl
Present output :
Required output:
let me know for more details.
Thanks
Bhanu

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Neil Burton SSC-Insane Points: 22924 More actions · Answer 1

How is the order you want being decided? They appear essentially random to me.

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Gail Shaw SSC Guru Points: 1004504 More actions · Answer 2

Easiest way will be to add another column, call it DisplayOrder or something like that. Populate that column with the order you want the rows to be displayed and ORDER BY that column.

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kbhanu15 SSCarpal Tunnel Points: 4493 More actions · Answer 3

yes you are right Gail Shaw, the suggestion you proposed is working fine.

thank you.

ChrisM@Work SSC Guru Points: 186127 More actions · Answer 4

kbhanu15 (6/17/2014)
yes you are right Gail Shaw, the suggestion you proposed is working fine.
thank you.

Can you post your solution please kbhanu15? It would be very handy for other folks who may stumble upon this thread.

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kbhanu15 SSCarpal Tunnel Points: 4493 More actions · Answer 5

sure, please find the solution for this issue.

FIX 1:

USE tempdb

GO

IF OBJECT_ID('tempdb..#VersionFormat_tb') IS NOT NULL

DROP TABLE #VersionFormat_tbl

CREATE TABLE #VersionFormat_tbl

(

[FormatID] [smallint] NOT NULL,

[Description] [varchar](50) NULL,

[fileExtension] [varchar](10) NOT NULL,

[versionFormatTypeId] [tinyint] NOT NULL,

DisplayOrder SMALLINT NOT NULL

CONSTRAINT [PK_VersionFormat_tbl] PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED

(

[FormatID] ASC

)

INSERT INTO #VersionFormat_tbl

( FormatID ,

Description ,

fileExtension ,

versionFormatTypeId,

DisplayOrder

)

VALUES

(1,'Text','txt',1,5),

(2,'HTML','html',1,1),

(3,'XML','xml',1,6),

(4,'PDF','pdf',1,4),

(5,'Excel','xls',1,2),

(6,'Word','doc',1,3)

GO

SELECT * FROM #VersionFormat_tbl

ORDER BY DisplayOrder