Monthly Archives: March 2015

Numeric sorting an alphanumeric column

The other day a customer came up to me and said: I have this column that holds numeric data, usually. But when I sort it it gets all messed up, because is sorts it alphanumerically. That is 10 is listed before 2 etc. My first suggestion was: well, sort by TO_NUMBER(column) then. Well, he replied, […]

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