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AskSQLTeam
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 Posted - 2006-04-26 : 09:42:39
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| Chad writes "I have a table filled with tasks. Each task has a due date. I would like to sort these tasks by due date, such that any non-null dates are sorted first, followed by due dates with a null value. By default, SQL server returns null values first, then actual dates.The work around I'm using is to use the isnull function and replace null dates with 1/1/9999 to get these to sort AFTER the non-null date values. This works fine technically, but is confusing the users...Any other ideas?Thanks,ChadSQL Server 2000" |
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robvolk
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Posted - 2006-04-26 : 09:43:27
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| SELECT * FROM myTableORDER BY CASE WHEN DueDate IS NULL THEN 1 ELSE 0 END,DueDate |
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Sorting Dates with Null values, Order of