select india 1st and then others sort asc

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select india 1st and then others sort asc

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shanmugaraj
Posting Yak Master

219 Posts

Posted - 2013-01-01 : 02:45:14

I have Country Table with all the countries.
i want to select country "India" in first row then following by all the countries order by ascending
kindly help me on the query below to make the same..

Select Country_Name form TblCountry order by Country_Name Asc

THANKS
SHANMUGARAJ
nshanmugaraj@gmail.com

shenulal
Starting Member

11 Posts

Posted - 2013-01-01 : 06:23:01

select 'India' as Country
union
Select CountryName as Contry from Country

shenulal
Starting Member

11 Posts

Posted - 2013-01-01 : 06:23:37

select 'India' as Country
union
Select CountryName as Contry from Country

lionofdezert
Aged Yak Warrior

885 Posts

Posted - 2013-01-01 : 09:55:55

Select Country_Name
FROM TblCountry
order by CASE WHEN Country_Name='India' THEN 1 ELSE 0 END DESC, Country_Name Asc

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visakh16
Very Important crosS Applying yaK Herder

52326 Posts

Posted - 2013-01-03 : 01:14:16

quote:
Originally posted by shenulal

select 'India' as Country
union
Select CountryName as Contry from Country

this will not still guarantee order starting with India

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