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Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 20:24:50 -0600
From: Rosser Schwarz <rosser.schwarz@gmail.com>
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To: Andreas Joseph Krogh <andreak@officenet.no>
Subject: Re: Making NULL entries appear first when ORDER BY <field> ASC
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while you weren't looking, Andreas Joseph Krogh wrote:

> Any idea how to achieve this?

...
ORDER BY coalesce(start_date, '1900-01-01') ASC
      , coalesce(start_time, '1900-01-01') ASC;

/rls

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