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MySQL ORDER BY letters (not numbers) for column values comprising strings with numbers like '456 John Smith'
To ORDER BY letters, use ORDER BY SUBSTRING(). Let us first create a table −
mysql> create table DemoTable ( Id varchar(100) ); Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.65 sec)
Insert some records in the table using insert command −
mysql> insert into DemoTable values('456 John Smith');
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.13 sec)
mysql> insert into DemoTable values('897 Adam Smith');
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.10 sec)
mysql> insert into DemoTable values('1009 Bob Smith');
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.13 sec)Display all records from the table using select statement −
mysql> select *from DemoTable;
This will produce the following output −
+----------------+ | Id | +----------------+ | 456 John Smith | | 897 Adam Smith | | 1009 Bob Smith | +----------------+ 3 rows in set (0.00 sec)
Following is the query to ORDER BY letters −
mysql> select *from DemoTable order by SUBSTRING(Id,LOCATE(' ', Id));This will produce the following output −
+----------------+ | Id | +----------------+ | 897 Adam Smith | | 1009 Bob Smith | | 456 John Smith | +----------------+ 3 rows in set (0.05 sec)
Updated on: 25-Sep-2019
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