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Case + order by

Can anybody help me that for different select options as follows
___ Name
___ Age
___ Address
___ Place

how I will arrange his in sort order according to user enters and which i need to select from a database file.

Like select * from table where conditions order by ???????????

How I can handle this situation?

Regards,
Renjith
Sep 18 '08 #1
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jkmyoung
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How are you passing the input from the user to your program?

How are you forming the query? Can you use a stored procedure and a switch on the value passed in?

eg if it's name, run this query
if it's age, run this query, etc..
Sep 18 '08 #2

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