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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=DE link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>I have found a solution (I don’t know if it works):<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>ORDER BY<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'> PropertyName,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'> CASE ISNUMERIC(MixedField + 'e0') WHEN 1 THEN 0 ELSE 1 END, -- letters after numbers<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'> CASE ISNUMERIC(MixedField + 'e0') WHEN 1 THEN CAST(MixedField AS INT) ELSE 0 END,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'> MixedField<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>But I don’t know what to put in “PropertyName” in this example.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>Any hint?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>Thanks<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>Tiemo<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 4.0pt'><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Von:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> valentina-bounces@lists.macserve.net [mailto:valentina-bounces@lists.macserve.net] <b>Im Auftrag von </b>Tiemo Hollmann TB<br><b>Gesendet:</b> Donnerstag, 31. Januar 2013 10:35<br><b>An:</b> Valentina Liste senden<br><b>Betreff:</b> OT: SQL natural sort question<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Hello,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>perhaps somebody can give me a pointer. I have a text field with alphabetic (including diacritical chars) and numeric content where I do an ordered select. I could do the wanted “natural sort” by program after the select, but I wonder if there is a more straight forward (and faster) way by Valentina / SQL without creating sql functions and stuff like this.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Thanks<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Tiemo<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></div></body></html>