showing records in specific order in grid view

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I have a table named tblcomp with fields:
id
name
sts

In sts there are values P,A,D,R
I want to show all the records in grid view, but in precedence that records with sts are showed first, then with sts A , after that with sts D.

Pecedence is as:
P
A
D
R

I was trying to use order by but it sort in a specific order.
Please suggest how it can be done.

Thanks in advance

Posted 19-Oct-10 21:41pm

Rohit from Delhi

Updated 19-Oct-10 21:48pm

LittleYellowBird

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Solution 1

Maybe have another table that defines your status codes.

e.g

tblStatus
statusId
statusCode
statusOrder

Your records could be defined as

statusId      statusCode    statusOrder
1             D             3
2             A             2
3             P             1
4             R             4

Then you can just use standard SQL and join the tables + use an order by on the statusOrder column

select * from tblcomp C inner join tblStatus S on C.sts = S.statusCode ORDER BY statusOrder

If you're going to do this, better to store the ID from tblStatus in tblComp rather than the status code - but the above demonstrates the technique

Posted 19-Oct-10 22:08pm

Dylan Morley

Updated 19-Oct-10 22:29pm

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Hiren solanki 20-Oct-10 4:45am

Yeah, dylan that could be the one way.

Solution 2

U are using a sql select query to populate the grid...Just add a [order by column name (asc/desc)] clause at the end of the query depend on how u want to sort.................. :laugh:

Posted 19-Oct-10 22:25pm

Rounak Hasan

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Hiren solanki · Accepted Answer · 2010-10-19T22:55:00

Solution 3

You could have Common table to rescue,

SQL

WITH CTE
AS
(
select id,name,CASE [sts] WHEN 'P' THEN 1 WHEN 'A' THEN 2 WHEN 'D' THEN 3 WHEN 'R' THEN 4 END statuscode from table
)
select * from CTE ORDER BY statuscode

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Posted 19-Oct-10 22:55pm

Hiren solanki

Updated 19-Oct-10 22:56pm

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