#sort order

[msb-lair]

MORE ROOM!!! YAY!!!

I have already killed waaaaaayyyyyyy too much time today on re-arranging my lair. I now have tabs for stuff like my MCU fandragons and Fandragons of Middle Earth, and have already shuffled a pile of keep-forevers and assorted misc fandragons (Jurassic fandragons, Calvin & Hobbes, my lone Discworld fandragon, etc) over to hibernal storage.

I foresee at least a small buying spree in my future. And a larger one once I purchase enough hibernal storage to shuffle all my MCU fandragons over to hibernal too. I also need to make a pass through all the dragons I’ve already stuck into storage and make sure none of them has a familiar that’s still in need of cuddles.

I may eventually at some point also move the Middle Earth fandragons over to hibernal storage, though that’s a much more long-term plan given how many slots I’d need to unlock for them first (80-odd at current count, and part of the buying spree will be additional fandragons).

I like that I can stick an arbitrary amount of dragons onto any page in the tabs, it’s allowed me to do things like sort my Middle Earth fandragons out by groups such as company-fellowship-wizards-enemies-men-elves-dwarves-hobbits-etc. But I also wish there was a per-tab opt in for having a fixed number of dragons per page, which would automagically rearrange the dragons as they got shuffled around, since that would work best with my breeding pairs tab. I like to keep the breeders organized in a queue by upcoming breeding order, so the first few in the tab are the dragons actually on nests, followed by the dragons who’ll be laying clutches next, and move pairs who’ve eggs have hatched to the end (or sometimes some place in the middle) of the queue. I can at least get them to the end relatively easily, by moving the pair temporarily to another tab, then back to the breeding pairs tab, but then I still have to manually readjust the pages back to the 16 pairs per page (in rows of 4) that I’ve decided I like for that tab.

Also I really hate the “will be next able to breed on whatever date” instead of the much simpler “in x days”, and that when I’m moving dragons around I can’t see who’ll be able to breed when, since being able to sort them by how many days left until RTB is rather key to maintaining the breeding queue.

[eklausmeier]

Unix sort Issue

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New Post has been published on http://www.varindersandhu.in/2011/10/24/sql-server-user-defined-sort-order/

SQL Server – User Defined Sort Order

I had requirement to get the values with Use Defined Sort order. Here is simple way to get User Defined Sort order

Example:

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Created a table as :

CREATE TABLE sort_order ( id INT, dept VARCHAR(20), detail VARCHAR(30) )

Inserted few rows in table as

Use Defined Sort Order

Requirement:

Now we want to change the sort order and new sorted output should be:

REQUIRED OUTPUT:

Use Defined Sort Order

For this created a function:

CREATE FUNCTION test_fn ( ) RETURNS @temp_table TABLE ( sno int, dept varchar(20) ) AS BEGIN INSERT @temp_table(sno,dept) SELECT 1,'C' UNION all SELECT 2,'A' UNION all SELECT 3,'D' UNION all SELECT 4,'E' UNION all SELECT 5,'B' RETURN END

Now for the desired or  User Defined sort order we ran the following query:

SELECT so.dept,so.detail FROM sort_order so JOIN ( SELECT * FROM test_fn() ) aa ON aa.dept = so.dept ORDER BY aa.sno

  We get the REQUIRED OUTPUT as

Use Defined Sort Order

SPECIAL CASES

Now on inserting a new record in the table sort_order and not making an entry of the same in the test_fn() will not display it int the result using the above query.

Hence to handle this we modify the query as :

select Isnull(aa.sno,99) as SNo, so.dept,so.detail from sort_order so Left join ( Select * from test_fn() ) aa on aa.dept = so.dept ORDER BY AA.sno

This will replace the NULL provided earlier by 99 so that we get to know that this is the new record.

OUTPUT:

Use Defined Sort Order

NOTE: But in this the sorting order has changed. We require 99 record to come at the end. This can be handled in two ways:

CASE 1

SELECT SNo,dept,detail FROM ( select CAST (Isnull(aa.sno,99)AS int) as SNo, so.dept,so.detail from sort_order so Left join ( select * from test_fn() ) aa on aa.dept = so.dept ) BB ORDER BY BB.SNo

  CASE 2

We can handle the sorting using Reporting Tool like Crystal Report

OUTPUT:

Use Defined Sort Order

If you have any other way, you can share as comment.

Thanks to my colleague Bhavna Kakkar who documented this post for me.

[nofudaboutwindows]

Sort order in windows explorer

In a file browser I expect the directories to be at the top and the files below them, sorted like chosen in the header. So I've not been amused that it was changed in the windows explorer so that it always changes from top to bottom. I have to scroll nearly all the time. A pain in the ass, especially when sorting by date. I've looked into it and someone suggested to use the column "date" instead of "date modified". To my surprise the sorting worked as expected (why is it different for different columns?!?), but the displayed date is not what I want. Where is the checkbox "directories always at the top"? What moron thought that changing the sorting order might be a good idea?