If you ever need to sort character strings stored in SQL Server fields, check out this demonstration of how to write a common sorting algorithm using SQL Server TSQL code.

We can look at this and see that .11 should sort after .2, but I'm not sure how to tell SQL to sort a text field like that.<BR><BR>Is it possible? Thanks! More options ...

PROC SQL allows you to specify the ORDER BY clause in the CREATE VIEW statement. Every time a view is accessed, its data are sorted and displayed as specified by the ORDER BY clause. This sorting on ...