Posted by Jared Williams on 04/19/05 14:08

> > Hi there!
> >
> > I guess this is off-topic? but I want to know if this is
> possible. (If
> > there's anyone out there that have a solution, I would appreciate it
> > though)
> >
> > I want to know if there is anyway of showing tables in PHP
> in an order
> > like this in a single SQL-statement...
> >
> > Table is like this:
> > IDCategory
> > 7
> > 15
> > 4
> > 3
> >
> > I want to order the table like this: First everything that is
> > IDCategory 4, then the rest of the posts (doesn't matter
> which order)
> >

SELECT *, 1 AS sequence FROM Table WHERE IDCategory = 4
UNION
SELECT *, 2 AS sequence FROM Table WHERE IDCategory != 4
ORDER BY sequence ASC

Jared

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