Question

At the moment i’m currently using the query builder to pull all my records from my database and they are currently organised by day however I its sorts in althabetical order,

  public Cursor fetchAll() {

      return mDb.query(DATABASE_TABLE, new String[] {KEY_ROWID, KEY_MODULECODE,
        KEY_DAY, KEY_TIME, KEY_DURATION, KEY_TYPE, KEY_ROOM},null, null, null, null,"Day");
   }    

I know after some googling, that I need to replace the final section with a custom search order.
something along the lines of :

 select _id, busnum, 
    case cast (strftime('%w', servdate) as integer)
        when 0 then 'Sunday'
        when 1 then 'Monday'
        when 2 then 'Tuesday'
        when 3 then 'Wednesday'
        when 4 then 'Thursday'
         when 5 then 'Friday'
        else 'Saturday' end as servdayofweek
   from tb1
   where ...

   From:
   http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4319302/sqlite-return-as-day-of-week

so far i have been unable to figure out how tocombine the two and anyhelp in the right direction would be much aprechiated.

Edit Soloution
thank you for the help I went with declaring the string and linking to it in the query for anyone that needs something simple this is my final code for it

public Cursor fetchAll() {
   String OrderBy ="case Day"+
      " when 'Monday' then 0 "+ 
      " when 'Tuesday' then 1"+
      " when 'Wednesday' then 2"+
      " when 'Thursday' then 3"+
      " when 'Friday' then 5"+
      " end";
 return mDb.query(DATABASE_TABLE, new String[] {KEY_ROWID, KEY_MODULECODE,
        KEY_DAY, KEY_TIME, KEY_DURATION, KEY_TYPE, KEY_ROOM},null, null, null, null,OrderBy );
}    

Answer 1

If your Day values are the day names then you want something like this:

order by case Day
        when 'Sunday' then 0
        when 'Monday' then 1
        when 'Tuesday' then 2
        ...
        when 'Saturday' then 6
    end

in the SQL; keep in mind that you can hand an SQL ORDER BY pretty much any expression. The orderBy argument to query can be any SQL ORDER BY clause (without the order by) so you want this big ugly string :

"case Day when 'Sunday' then 0 when 'Monday' then 1 ... when 'Saturday' then 6 end"

as the last argument to query. You’ll have to properly fill in the ... of course.