Convert your month to an integer between 1 and 12 (1 = Jan, 2 = Feb etc) using datepart and then use that in your ORDER BY clause:

select datefield

order by...

I know - but your original post quotes 'an identity column called row id' - you cannot insert 'to the middle of the table' with such a design.

Disagree.  INSERTS won't hurt a clustered ID index, as the records just go in at the end and no reorg required.

Try running this code and you'll get the idea:

declare @a varchar(120), @b-2 varchar(120)

set @a = 'COMPUTER CORP                                    45474'

set @b-2 = 'SQL IMAGING, INC     90159S'

select reverse(left(reverse(@a), charindex(' ', reverse(@a))-1))

select rtrim(left(@a, len(@a)...

Hi Jesper

I was actually answering the previous message; not yours, which made perfect sense.  Your solution effectively replaces my view idea with a standard (non-corelated ?) subquery and is the...

This is not strictly a corelated subquery - the subquery runs independently of the outer query, as the subquery's results do not depend on values from the outer query.  I can't...

Yuk, your problem here (if you hadn't already realised!) is stripping the filepath out of medialist.media to leave you with just the filename, which you can then join to MobileVideo.

Here's...

I think that your requirement for row aggregation rules out a simple join query directly.  However, why not create a view of

select orderID, sum(quantity) from [order details] group by orderID

and...

Not sure whether you've already worked this out, but sounds like you need

select cast(3434.3484365657 as decimal(19,2))

Standard Windows:

Shift-Alt-Spacebar x

How about creating an additional integer field with identity (to do the counting for you) and then create an insert trigger to set the field you want. 

Try running this and see if it gets you moving in the right direction:

declare @a float

declare @b-2 decimal(19,2)

set @a = 3434.3484365657

set @b-2 = @a

select @a Float, @b-2 TwoDPs

This thread should give you what you need:

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/forums/shwmessage.aspx?forumid=92&messageid=201594

Ace.

I'm sorry, but I'm afraid that confusion still reigns in my mind!  Why would you want to write a program that works exactly like IDENTITY?

Does your prog need to generate...