RE: displaying result sets in the order listed in the IN list
- From: "Lex de Haan" <lex.de.haan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 19:41:15 +0200
this is not possible in the relational world.
to me this sounds like the famous "missing attribute" issue;
if this order is important for whatever reason, they forgot to design it
properly.
anyway, it is impossible to make the order of elements listed in an IN-list
change the order of your result; you will need some other attribute (the
missing one) for an ORDER BY clause.
Kind regards,
Lex.
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-----Original Message-----
From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Ivan Chow
Sent: Friday, April 16, 2004 18:35
To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: displaying result sets in the order listed in the IN list
Hello,
I have a table that has the following values:
select * from mytab;
mycol
-----
1
2
3
4
5
6
select * from mytab where mycol in (3,1,4);
mycol
-----
1
3
4
Is it possible to display the values of mycol in the order the literal
values are listed in the IN list? The IN list string 3,1,4 is passed in by
another program and it can be listed in any order. I need the results to be
display in whatever the order is in the IN list.
My expected result is
mycol
-----
3
1
4
Is that possible? If not, any suggestions?
thanks in advance.
Ivan C.
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