Wednesday, December 07, 2005
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Thinking outside the SQL box

Ken McNamee has been thinking outside the SQL box.  I didn't realize that you can use a "case" statement in the "order by" clause:

DECLARE @orderBy varchar(50)
SET @orderBy = 'LastName'

SELECT
    *
FROM
    Employees
ORDER BY
    CASE
        WHEN @orderBy = 'LastName' THEN LastName
    END,
    CASE
        WHEN @orderBy = 'HireDate' THEN HireDate
    END

For more on this, see his post:
http://blogs.vertigosoftware.com/kenm/archive/2005/12/06/Dynamic_ORDER_BY_Clause.aspx

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